Anthony Burgess T.S.Eliot W.H.Auden From The Best American Poetry Anthony Burgess's Tremor of Intent (1966), his satire of espionage novels, bears a double epigraph. The first is from W. H. Auden: << But between the day and night The choice is free to all, and light Falls equally on black and white. >> The second is from T. S. Eliot: << The worst that can be said of most of our malefactors, from statesmen to thieves, is that they are not men enough to be damned . >>