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Well, I'm off to bed now, for good re-read of Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange (1962).
I, for one, would not object to a dictionary review being written by an Anthony Burgess or a Kurt Vonnegut.
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.