Stalin's Englishman by Andrew Lownie

Author:Andrew Lownie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2016-08-13T04:00:00+00:00

A journalist who saw him several times that spring remembered that Burgess ‘drank heavily but was able to “hold his whiskey”, in that he could drink six highballs, “without turning a hair”. He stated that although Burgess would drink an unusually large amount of whiskey, he never seemed to even approach becoming intoxicated … He found Burgess “restless and agitated” and:

feeling that the United States was headed for doom because of having gotten confused and bogged down with regard to Oriental affairs … Burgess was very free in manner and seemed almost desperate in his seeking friends. He stated Burgess made a very poor personal appearance, pointing out that he never wore a hat, his hair was always tousled, and his fingernails were always very dirty … Burgess liked to drive his convertible car with the top down in the wintertime and to make a lot of noise with it. He stated that Burgess would continually pace the floor while talking and was a very unconventional type of individual … expressed the opinion that it would be interesting, from a psychological point of view, to determine the reason for Burgess’s ‘flamboyance’ and his apparent revolt from conventions.15

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