Nabrander over Burgess

Twee citaten uit Burgess' bundel The Devil's Mode en wel uit het titelverhaal.

Browning sat heavily by one of the windows and banged his blackthorn on the low table to summon a waiter. "The waiters are fools," he said. "You see they have two clocks here, each telling a different time. I pointed this out to one of them, and he said why should they waste money on two clocks that told the same time."

A waiter came, announcing his coming with a tray rhytmically banged on his right kneecap. Brandy. Whiskey. "That is the man," Browning said, as the metallic drumming retreated. "He is also the man who could not slide a message under the bedroom door because the message was on a tray."