Аннотация
Anthony Burgess
The Clockwork Testament (Or: Enderby 's End)
Anthony Burgess
The Clockwork Testament (Or: Enderby's End)
Book 3 of the Enderby Quartet
to Burt Lancaster
"… deserves to live, deserves to live."
ONE
The first thing he saw on waking was his lower denture on the floor, its groove encrusted with dried Dentisement, or it might be Orastik, Mouthficks, Gripdent, or Bite (called Bait in Tangier, where he could be said to have a sort of permanent, that is to say, if you could talk of permanency these days in anything, so to speak, address); the fully teethed in my audience will hardly conceive of the variety of denture adhesives on the market. His tongue, at once sprung into life horribly with no prelude of decent morning sluggishness, probed the lower gum briskly and found a diminution of yesterday's soreness. Then it settled into the neutral schwa position to await further directives. So. The denture, incru...
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