The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End
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The Clockwork Testament is a novel by the British author Anthony Burgess. It was first published in 1974 in London by Hart-Davis, MacGibbon Publishers.
It is usually subtitled Enderby's End, as it was originally intended to be the last book in the Enderby series.
The opening scenes present Enderby living in an apartment in New York and struggling with a job as a visiting professor of literature at a local university.
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| “ | The important thing is to get yourself born. You’re entitled to that. But you’re not entitled to life. Because if you were entitled to life, then the life would have to be quantified. How many years? Seventy? Sixty? Shakespeare was dead at fifty-two. Keats was dead at twenty-six. Thomas Chatterton at seventeen.
'But what happens when you die?' 'You’re finished with,' Enderby said promptly. 'Done for. And even if you weren’t – well, you die then, gasp your last, then you’re sort of wandering, free of body. You wander around and then you come in contact with a sort of big thing. What is this big thing? God, if you like.' 'Everything off. I want to see you in your horrific potbellied hairy filthy nakedness.' |
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