Word: castita
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...story tells the plight of Miles Faber, a wealthy young pedant who is determined to visit the Caribbean island of Castita in order to discover facts about a totally unsung native poet named Sib Legeru. His innocent search soon plunges him into confrontations with menacing strangers who demand answers to fantastic questions instead of replying to Miles' simple ones. Worse, he learns that not only is he the child of an incestuous union but that he also has both a sister and a double on the island. Murder and mayhem follow with appropriate speed...
Burgess originally planned to be a composer. He is now halfway through writing music and lyrics for a musical version of Ulysses. He could not resist, either, printing in MF the music Miles hears in Castita-the same tune, successively done as a ballad, an anthem and a wedding march. He has completed two movie scripts and is itching to get behind a camera. "So much to learn," he mutters dejectedly, but he is investing in movie-tape equipment, and heaven knows who or what will be shot on the playing fields of Princeton...