Posts Tagged ‘Anthony Burgess’
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause”*…
via @ShortList
The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.
― Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies
Rather be dead than cool
– Kurt Cobain/Nirvana, “Stay Away”
* Mark Twain
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As we bask in the boss, we might send tubular birthday greetings to John Anthony Burgess Wilson; he was born on this date in 1917. A composer, translator, and author better known by his pen name, “Anthony Burgess,” he put his linguistic facility to use in his most famous novel, A Clockwork Orange, creating a “Nadsat” slang for Alex and his gang that included a word that surely belongs on the list above– “horrorshow.”
Well, it beats a lump of coal…
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As we reach for the scissors, we might recall that it was on this date in 1971 that Stanley Kubrick’s adaption of Anthony Burgess’ A Clockwork Orange was released… Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well.
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