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Earthly Powers (1980)
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It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
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Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?
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Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.
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But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.
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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
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Anthony Burgess
Born:
February 25, 1917
Died:
November 22, 1993
(aged 76)
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