From: benlizro@ihug.co.nz   
      
   Born Manchester, 1952.   
   Best known for _A Clockwork Orange_ (1952), filmed by Stanley Kubrick   
   (1971).   
   Definitely a language buff. For his dystopian future, he invented a teen   
   slang with a lot of Russian words in it. I liked "horror show" (хорошо   
   'good'). But I never finished the book. Never saw the movie either,   
   though it was much talked about -- still gets an 8.2 on IMDb. From what   
   I heard and saw of it, it struck me as glamorizing violence in a way   
   that was very fashionable at the time, but not to my taste. Maybe I was   
   wrong.   
      
   Anyhow, Burgess also created a prehistoric language for _Quest for   
   Fire_. Or maybe two? Was that the one where the more advanced people   
   spoke something that sounded suspiciously like Proto-Indo-European?   
      
   Wrote two popular books about language: Language Made Plain (1964) and A   
   Mouthful of Air (1992). Both made the prestigeous "books I bought but   
   never read" long-list. Anybody read them?   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)