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Posted by Bob on 10/06/09 11:46
On Mon, 01 May 2006 15:11:03 -0400, Neil Nadelman
<arvy@navzr-genafyngbe.pbz (ROT13)> wrote:
> Well, yeah, but he's seeing that he's getting too old for the
>gangster lifestyle and is starting to see the appeal of settling down
>with a wife and having a child. It pretty much undoes all the stuff we
>saw him do in the rest of the book.
What Burgess failed to do was turn him into a politician, which is the
place criminals go when they want to settle down.
--
"A politician's neck should always have a noose around it.
It keeps him upright."
-Robert Heinlein
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