![]() ![]() ![]() ‘Then-instead of expensive mouthwash-he had breathed on Enderby-bafflingly-(for no banquet would serve, because of the redolence of onions, onions) onions.’ This was the line with which Burgess proved (allegedly for a bet) he could write a sentence where the word “onions” appears three times. Burgess, he said, was “one of our great comic novelists.” Boyd gave, by way of example, that off-used line from one of the Enderby novels. At the memorial service for Anthony Burgess in 1994, novelist William Boyd eulogized the author of A Clockwork Orange as “a genius,” “a prodigy, a daunting and awesome one,” who “would compose a string quartet in the ten minutes he allowed himself between finishing a novel and writing a monograph on James Joyce,” whose “polymorphous abilities are genuinely amazing.” ![]() Death often inspires the most remarkable hyperbole. ![]()
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