It had, perhaps, not been a very edifying life. On the booze in England, in India, in Malaya... And then a couple of gins for breakfast and then the first beers of the day in a kedai ... He had been driven out of that Eden...because of his sinful desire to taste what was forbidden. (Anthony Burgess)

It had, perhaps, not been a very edifying life. On the booze in England, in India, in Malaya... And then a couple of gins for breakfast and then the first beers of the day in a kedai ... He had been driven out of that Eden...because of his sinful desire to taste what was forbidden.

Anthony Burgess

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