A VISION OF BATTLEMENTS by Anthony Burgess. 241 pages. Norton. $4.50.
"The Rock." The term has been a designation for many places by men suffering from civic disabilityAlcatraz, Guam, Oahubut the old original Rock was Gibraltar, that whale-headed monolith that was a minor prize and major symbol of the British Empire in its grandest days. Mocked the anti-imperialist Catholic poet Chesterton: "Gibraltar's a rock that you see very plain, and attached to its base is the district of Spain."
Anthony Burgess, also an English Catholic satirist, tells of a painful, three-year tour of duty...
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