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Gelett Burgess once said that if in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse.

You may be dead.

Gelett Burgess once suggested that to appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

Frank Burgess once said that if in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be dead.

Still even in this age, the power of Parliament was advancing(60); the anxiety of every pretender to get a parliamentary sanction for his claims was a sign of the growing importance of Parliament, and we get incidental notices which show that a seat in the House of Commons, and that not as a knight of a shire, but as a burgess of a borough, was now an object of ambition for men of the class from which knights of the shire were chosen, and even for the sons of members of the Upper House(61).

WITH UNFEIGNED REGRET IT IS WE ANNOUNCE THE DISSOLUTION OF A MOST RESPECTED DUBLIN BURGESS Hynes here too: account of the funeral probably.

I, for one, would not object to a dictionary review being written by an Anthony Burgess or a Kurt Vonnegut.

As the OCEL is concerned with language, per se, one would expect such entries to treat the writer's style, and, indeed, the entry on MELVILLE does so, but the treatment is uneven: that for CONRAD, aside from quoting a passage from Heart of Darkness , is barren of comment on language, and that for BURGESS focuses on a quotation of nadtsat' from A Clockwork Orange , with no mention of the author's position (at least in the UK ) as a language guru.

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.

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.

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