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The Times linked her to the notorious "Cambridge coven" of five male spies--Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.
The interesting thing in the book is its words list, taken from a relatively small corpus of books including ones by Burgess, Vonnegut, and (especially) Alexander Theroux ( Darconville's Cat ), all of them writers who enjoy playing with the language.
Anthony Burgess, in his Kingdom of the Wicked , remarks that Vespasian's own contemporaries designated street urinals as “vespasians,” certainly a much more ignominous affront because of its timeliness.
Well, I'm off to bed now, for good re-read of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962).
In A Clockwork Orange Anthony Burgess invented an entire dialect (Nadsat, a Russified version of English): I could sort of slooshy myself making special sort of shoms and govoreeting slovos like Dear dead idlewilds, rot not in variform guises and all that cal.