{"id":642,"date":"2005-10-25T00:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T00:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=642"},"modified":"2006-10-08T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-08T13:41:19","slug":"660-of-burgess-taught-at-the-malay-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"[640] Of Burgess taught at the Malay College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anthony_Burgess\">Anthony Burgess<\/a> (<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Anthony%20Burgess\">tag<\/a>), the great Anthony Burgess, taught at the Malay College during the 1950s. For those that don&#8217;t recognize Burgess, he wrote A Clockwork Orange. For those that have no idea what A Clockwork Orange is about, go read the book or watch Kubrick&#8217;s adaptation of it. If you don&#8217;t plan to read or watch it, boy, you&#8217;ll be missing something in your life.<\/p>\n<p>History never fails to amaze me. The more one delves into piles of bits and bytes, more one realizes the grandeur of life and one&#8217;s relationship with it.<\/p>\n<p>And suddenly, I feel the urge to read more Burgess&#8217;. What a good timing it is since I&#8217;m almost done with Lee Kuan Yew&#8217; <em>The Singapore Story<\/em> (shamefully the abridged edition) while my Crichton&#8217;s <em>Prey<\/em> is probably lost somewhere in the Pacific. I need a something new to read and hey, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with another Burgess.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m going to read <em>The Long Day Wanes<\/em> which comprises of three parts &#8211; <em>Time for a Tiger<\/em>, <em>The Enemy in the Blanket<\/em> and <em>Beds in the East<\/em>. It appears that the trilogy is set in Malaya.<\/p>\n<p>After reading it, I then may claim another page or three at Wikipedia by writing a review or three. Hah!<\/p>\n<p>p\/s &#8211; a tribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/10\/24\/parks.obit\/index.html\">Rosa Park<\/a>. Her courage brought us a fairer world.<\/p>\n<p>pp\/s &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/leighton\/294029.html\">Michigan haters, rejoice<\/a>! Darn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found out that Anthony Burgess (tag), the great Anthony Burgess, taught at the Malay College during the 1950s. For those that don&#8217;t recognize Burgess, he wrote A Clockwork Orange. For those that have no idea what A Clockwork Orange is about, go read the book or watch Kubrick&#8217;s adaptation of it. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-printed-materials","category-history-heritage","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}