“There was a silence. Outside, and most unfortunately, a boy could be heard calling to another boy: ‘Piss off, Cowie.’ Stern looks were fixed on Woolton.”

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction, The Worm and the Ring (1960)

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English writer 1917–1993

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