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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Language First

Aside from the easy violence of this future world, there is the language of the first person narrator (Alex) to accept. Then brothers, it came.  Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven.  I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Not Sublimity of Language and Concept?

Or perhaps it simply cannot be judged by Longinus or time: The old veck began to make sort of chumbling shooms–"wuf waf wof" — so Georgie let go of holding his goobers apart and just let him have one in … Continue reading Continue reading

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LITERATURE: Next Up–A Clockwork Orange

This novel by Anthony Burgess should be a big change from the South of Faulkner, Morrison and McCarthy.  I’d seen the film back when it came out in 1963 or so, but don’t remember much of it. Should be quite … Continue reading Continue reading

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