Interesting piece by Graham Holderness on Anthony Burgess's various creative engagements with Shakespeare: https://grahamholderness.com/2019/04/27/fictionalising-fact-anthony-burgess-and-shakespeare/ …
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... and as a pendant to that, here's my old blog on Burgess's ENDERBY'S DARK LADY, and his crazy Psalm 46 theory about the bard. https://anthonyburgessblog.blogspot.com/2015/05/shakespeare-martian-enderbys-dark-lady.html …pic.twitter.com/IyLpLuhcXh
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Replying to @arrroberts
"It's a Bradburyan, Phil-Dickian, David-Bowie-ish insight, our secret identity as Martians. Selah" Amen. (Also, in passing: love the mock cover for On Her Majesty's Secret Burgess.")
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I would like someone in the Hugh Kenner league to write a book about parody, including at intervals chapters that zero in on particular writers for whom the impulse to parody is central, maybe a half-dozen in all (you included, of course).
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Replying to @jwilson1812 @arrroberts
Such a book should include a chapter on John Sladek, whose parodies were also inspired.
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Replying to @HeerJeet @arrroberts
Ah, Jeet, you are a man after my own heart. Sladek's parody of Philip K. Dick (whom I love) is quite wonderful. "Solar Shoe-Salesman," or something like that.
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Yes, "Solar Shoe-Salesman" -- which Dick himself enjoyed.
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