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Most rockers, male or female, play a coy game of footsie under the table with fate. Hynde stomps right on its toes. When she gets kicked back, she writes a song that is part taunt, part testament and part a perpetual reappraisal of the price paid for defiance. This keen balancing act between distance and immediacy is probably what saved Hynde when the going got tough a few years back...
...English poet FX. Enderby, aging, dyspeptic, chronically unfulfilled and disaster prone, is a character so alive that not even his creator could kill him off. Starting in 1963, he has made his disorderly way through three previous Burgess novels (Inside Mr. Enderby; Enderby Outside; The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End), emerging from the lavatory where he writes his unappreciated poems to suffer such indignities as a bad marriage, scandal, a breakdown and success as a screenwriter...
...finale of Clockwork Testament (1975), Visiting Professor Enderby succumbed to a weak heart and culture shock on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Yet now ("to placate kind readers" who objected, Burgess maintains in a sub-subtitle) he pops up again...
...Enderby's previous incarnations, his buffoonery is a form of martyrdom to art. What gives it weight here is a pair of short stories he writes about Shakespeare. They form the opening and closing chapters of Dark Lady. The first, Will and Testament, is a bawdy historical pastiche in which Shakespeare, with Ben Jonson's connivance, manages to insert his name in the King James translation of the 46th Psalm ("Though the mountains shake . . . He cutteth the spear . . ."). The other, The Muse, tells of a scholar from an alternative universe who time-travels to Elizabethan England to verify...
...elders obviously did not read far enough into the New Testament. If they had, they would know Jesus' answer to the scribes and Pharisees in a comparable situation, John 8: 7. "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone...