“There he lieth, tossing in the guilt of his lewdness, the primal lecher, neglectful of his duties to a fair wife but all too ready to plunge his sizzling steel into the slaking black mud of a base Indian.”

— Anthony Burgess

Fiction, Nothing Like the Sun (1964)

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English writer 1917–1993

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