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Real horrorshow! Extremely clever use of language and storytelling.
Burgess was a linguist, and he used this background to depict his characters as govoreeting a form of Russian-influenced English.
During the blackout in WWII London, while Burgess was away serving in the army, a shaika of American deserters attacked his zheena, who was pregnant with their first child, in a brutal mugging. She lost the baby, and would never conceive again. From this traumatic event sprung the messel for his most ...more
Burgess was a linguist, and he used this background to depict his characters as govoreeting a form of Russian-influenced English.
During the blackout in WWII London, while Burgess was away serving in the army, a shaika of American deserters attacked his zheena, who was pregnant with their first child, in a brutal mugging. She lost the baby, and would never conceive again. From this traumatic event sprung the messel for his most ...more
A classic but an acquired taste.
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