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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.
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.
The Times linked her to the notorious "Cambridge coven" of five male spies--Kim Philby, Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, and John Cairncross.
I, for one, would not object to a dictionary review being written by an Anthony Burgess or a Kurt Vonnegut.
This book (the possession of which may become a substitute for reading it, to paraphrase Anthony Burgess in The New York Times Book Review ) should appeal to anyone over the age of thirty who has developed a sufficiently mature sense of reality to become a cynic.