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"Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, perhaps because a spiral was so difficult to describe. Easier to photograph the spiral from the top, easier to flatten the spring into a coil."

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About Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was an English novelist, critic, and composer best known for A Clockwork Orange. He wrote extensively across fiction, essays, and linguistic criticism.

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