As the novel turns 50, researchers discover manuscripts with different versions of the notorious first line
For four decades, children have sniggered at the first line of the Anthony Burgess novel Earthly Powers, regarded as the most deliberately provocative opening in 20th-century fiction: “It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me,” Burgess wrote.
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