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Great Expectations

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Bloody hear me! Tantrums and novels’ striking openings

Rod MacKenzie by Rod MacKenzie 11 July 201315 July 2013

  “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my teenage gay lover when Ali announced the archbishop had come to see me.”   So snorts the opening sentence to Anthony Burgess’s Earthly Powers – almost. Instead of “teenage gay lover” St Anthony uses the word catamite. The sentence […]

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