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Enderby composes his poems while he sits on the toilet. His bathtub, which serves as a filing cabinet, is almost full of the mingled paper and food scraps that represent his efforts. Although he is recognised as a minor poet with several published works (and is even awarded a small prize, the Goodby
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230:The Clockwork Testament, or Enderby's End
518:"Enderby's Dark Lady. Reincarnated Poet"
205:The book was first published in 1963 in
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261:while he is asleep. Enderby, a lapsed
242:Revolutionary Sonnets and Other Poems
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425:Biswell, Andrew (25 January 2003).
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265:in his mid-40s, lives alone in
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427:"Artifice and insemination"
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808:The End of the World News
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918:An Essay on Censorship
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717:The Eve of Saint Venus
654:The Right to an Answer
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