When I grow up I want to be Anthony Burgess.
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“And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.” – Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside, 1968.
“Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?” – Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 1962.
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October 17 | Psychology: Choice. I had a long conversation yesterday about choice and how it is one of the cornerstone constructs by which I make sense of the world. Anthony Burgess was the writer that originally brought my vague young feeling to well defined thought. This construct informs pretty much every conscious decision I make.
October 17 | Journal entry title: “Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses to be bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?” – Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, 1962.
October 16, 2012 | Post title from his quote: “And the words slide into the slots ordained by syntax, and glitter as with atmospheric dust with those impurities which we call meaning.” – Anthony Burgess, Enderby Outside, 1968.
August 27, 2012 | Time Marker: I just realized that Anthony Burgess published A Clockwork Orange 50-years ago this year. Originally published in December, 1962; In my twisted world December will be Anthony Burgess month for me.
1978: I believe this is the year I first learned of Anthony Burgess.
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