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When Anthony Burgess died in 1993, his obituarist in the Times Literary Supplement wrote that he was a man who “ate paper and drank ink” – in other words, a manic basher of the typewriter’s keys. He often gave the impression of writing against the clock, producing six novels in the space of a single year when a financial crisis was looming.
