Monday 9 August 2010

In books, I read

In a book I bought in London and read on the plane, Anthony Burgess who started his literary career using the name Burgess Wilson, and author of the novel A CLOCKWORK ORANGE made into an Oscar-nominted movie directed by Stanley Kubrick, starts his autobiography LITTLE WILSON AND BIG GOD in 1746, the year of the battle of Culloden when prince Charles Edward Stuart, James II's grand son is said to have fathered an illegitimate child in Manchester, Thomas de Quincey's city. From this boy, John Wilson, descended Anthony Burgess who was born in Carisbrook Street in Humphrey, a working-class district of north Manchester, at midday on Sunday 25th February 1917, just after the pubs had opened
In New York City, I read in a book I had bought in Boston about how Richard Burton and Peter O'Toole used to go on drinking bouts for days and nights on end, and moved or were removed from place to place all unawares that one time they started drinking in a Paris cafe but woke up in a Malaga hotel, and to their shock as they were bound to a shooting schedule for the film BECKET, O'Toole asked the bell boy what hour it was, but Burton retorted, "Don't ask him about the hour, ask him what day it is." That's drinking for you
While in Coleraine, I commuted to Belfast where there is a mall where there is a huge bookshop where I bought books where I read in them:


(1)--"My mother relished fellatio more than intercourse ... " Marlene Dietrich's biography by her daughter

(2)--"The curate discovered that my sister Rose was stealing candle sticks from the parish to use them for her masturbating ... " Tennessee Williams' NOTEBOOK

(3)--"Robert Taylor married Barbara Stanwyck to cover up their homosexuality, he his gayness and she her lesbianism ... " Harvey, LOVE MOVIES OF THE 1950s

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