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'Strong tea, the colour of mahogany' I love that line.

Why the hatred of Graves? His poetic rhythms are not flaccid at all--try his poem "Warning to Children" for a start. His two major book titles have entered our language as recognizable catch phrases. I suspect Burgess was jealous. Something about this critique smacks of English public school petty rivalry. Graves' reputation as a literary lion has been smothered by academia due to his many feuds (Eliot, Yeats) and strange opinions. The final straw for academia was his presentation of The Clark Lectures, in which he put his feuds on paper and on the lecture circuit. Graves had a case of shell shock from WWI that followed him to his death. In his last years, senility overtook him to the point that he thought his was in the trenches every day, and kept him terrified. He spent more time in the trenches in his old age than he had as a young officer. A brave man and a fine writer was Robert von Ranke Graves

Wasnt pound antisemitic. I was convinced pound wrote in code, rather cryptos

Hearing the excerpts is good as this novel about Ws never struck me as exciting or as convincing as Dead Man in Depford was. Perhaps Burgess was better able to to capture Marlowe. How’s it going Mr Grigson? Do you know of any complete readings of the entire book? I’m sure not as not many would read as well as you do. Mr Duffy here with a different account. Also a shame no one has uncovered some long lost masterpiece of Burgesss!

Always enjoy these clips, well done, but those voice-overs (both male and female) are simply dreadful. Mannered, preening, downright fecking weird, they spoil the whole thing. Please get someone capable of normal speech. Andrew Biswell would be good. Or ANYBODY. Please!

I've just discovered him as a person rather than a writer and I'm grateful to you for sharing this

You really shouldn't allow personal animus to cloud your judgement so much. It is quite unmistakable here - I'm far more surpised that Burgess is quite as miffed by RG as you appear to be; the great irony of Burgess is that he gained notoriety from one book - a book made infamous by a film, a film which he in turn disliked intensely. What fun.

How is it haunted???

What work is best to start with? Can anyone help?

Where should I start with this man?

All fair points. He did rush things and made errors...but that is still impressive. I found some of those early unread books in secondhand bookstores, and they still are remarkable, even if they are mostly unreadable.

Bruh

Graves' autobiography will go down as one of the finest accounts of the first world war. It really brings the whole thing to life very vividly. Great piece of writing

Jesus, Mr. Burgess

Top bit of Burgess but… did nobody offer him a hairbrush?

Halfway through this novel and enjoying it thoroughly. The Tree Of Man is next.

And again maybe thank to Trump i might do this. And for records not to attack Kubrick but, i want make less Kubrick movie for this because the whole Anthony Burgess and stanley Kubrick sort fall out fued. And i don’t want think anthony Burgess and expectations to be this art house Kubrick thing simple because the whole when think burgess the put Kubrick in there mind. Unlike let say Stephen king or maybe Arthur c clarke. I want make this more of Hitchcock homage with fear and loading in las vegas with bit pink panther in the middle. Or maybe Alfred Hitchcock meet blake edwards in middle. I just make a fun mini series. I think i have Steven webber on my head for some reason. Or something like Late '50s-early '60s sophisticated thriller and crime movie genre, especially Topkapi, the original Ocean's Eleven, Charade, and many Alfred Hitchcock movies. The title screens are done in the style of Saul Bass and the The Pink Panther movies, Other inspiration is charade and maybe topkapi. And again pink panther movie was other inspiration And do a homage to Jean Cocteau beauty and the beast with a text that basic saying this is not a communist Propaganda. This is sort based on true story in same way fargo except is based on same guy vaction in the 60s. I want actually take places st Petersberg. And also each intro i want a cartoon bear ( again is meant to be pink panther thing ) and he is fight aginst a old man who meant to be Burgess. Again in the old pink panther movie there is pink panther and also the inspector. And also one epsidoe i pay homage to Richard Williams titel with movie parody. I got Idea shining one with the bear basic doing the jack Torrance thing.

Cannot bear this smug, self-satisfied voice.

He had a shadow, Carl Jung would say. I don't know.

Real horrowshow govoreeting. Viddy well, old droog.

"insert myself" lol

Many years ago, I remember John Sessions recounted being on a radio talk show with AB. AB lit up a cigarillo in the recording booth. Radio engineer: Sorry, mate, you can't smoke in here. AB: I don't see why not. Smoke rises. Redemption. Radio engineer: .................

Jolly good Geoff. You are entering your Sam Beckett phase… soon it will be a single sigh .. then … nothing.

I love Burgess, a brilliant witty poetic writer-but nature is sooooooooooo gay

A cold shower for you now, Geoff...

Nice arse!

prophecy

When the material has run out. Start giving readings again. After all, isnt that what its all about? His words? I'd do it myself but as I hit it hard rendering audiobook fullness the A.B. society rips them down as though I was making one thin dime. Oh and by the way. The snotier the better. Love to feel the sharper pen coming up from lower middle class origins and stabbing the present fattened cat of ignorance right in the Yarbles. Share the wit. Its always nice to see and hear from your channel just the same. P.S. Fk the present identity determinations. Ethically, Morally or Politically. A Barrel full of linked armed monkeys. A dust coated keyboard closet of wind up chattering teeth. The State of things.

Tremendous CGI work, Geoff!

Always a joy to see and hear more Burgessiana.

Censorship, re-writing history, dominant centralized power/govt. Sound like anything familiar in the US? Today's Democratic party sadly,,, the exact opposite of it's values decades prior.

Someone frequented Graves bed - he had 10 children

Opium, and its wondrous derivatives, is a fine thing indeed.

Isaiah 45:7 says Yahweh creates good and evil. Roman’s 9 says God forms vessels of dishonor for the purpose of highlighting the vessels of mercy. Proverbs 16:4 says God made everything for its own purpose, even the wicked one for the day of evil. Yet God also sends His own Son…to save sinners. To reconcile All to Him, in the heavens or on the earth, seen or unseen (Col 1:17-20). That God wills all to be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth (1 Tim 2:4)…is the savior of all (1 Tim 4:10)…will be All in All (1 Cor 15:28.) So relax Mr. Burgess, all things will be corrected and all will be with God and God will be all in you.

Been to that cemetery in Rome .and visited Shelley’s grave and Keats.

Does remind me of my city in the northeast . Was not the best in the 70’s But in the millennium it got a make over guess that happened a lot

I thought I recognised Fats Waller's 1937 ditty "The Joint is Jumpin'!"

Superb. Thank you for sharing this.

Interesting documentary about burgess it’s good it was saved

Burgess chronicled the veritable instilling of civilisation by the White man in a largely uncivilised world back then.

Touche, Anthony!

An excellent little summary of the modernist movement!

Hilarious! And Greene, supposedly a communist man of the people, being a snob as only communists know how and trying to talk down to Burgess!

weird music choice they chose... is it from a full documentary?

The continuous struggle to be more correct. but yeah it's a mess the italian politics, never learned to grow the nation to an higher standard of self respect, instead it's a constant point fingering at all durections sibce there are so many parties... the hell with them I say!

I appreciate the tracing back of a history of colonial rule. I hope to have a sit down with someone like you. My city Bombay was rules by Portugal and then Britain. I see the colonial government buildings still standing and for some strange reason a nostalgia evokes within me, and I trace the steps of the British colonial public servants who were stationed in Bombay, something similar to what you do in your videos.

You have to appreciate those who follow in the physical footsteps of their favourite literary author, who instilled in them an urge to see remote foreign lands.

Being a Catholic British science fiction author, it's pretty safe to say that Anthony knew a few gay blokes. And even considered some his friends.

Wow! I'll have to read it, the only one I believe I haven't read. Seems particularly apt for the present revelations of Russian derangement under Putin.

I hope this is a joke, but I’m honestly not sure, and the fact I’m not sure is terrifying.