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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Social Significance
I don’t believe that Burgess is giving us just the usual youth rebellion, but rather a social comment on a move towards violence through the freedoms granted within a civilized society. Alex, the narrator and bad boy, has turned sly; … Continue reading Continue reading
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POETRY: Symbiosis
The wind makes no sound without what it touches, branches, bushes, the mountains and valleys of land. But true friendship is formed in the otherwise silence of dry autumn leaves in the breeze. Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – A Question of Human Nature and of Media
Very interesting section here; Alex is in prison and is going to be allowed out early under a new program of rehabilitation called the "Ludovico’s Technique." Well Alex is of course all for it, oblivious to the warning signs of … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE & REALITY?: A Clockwork Orange – Language
Sitting here, still plattied in my robe, slooshying to the von of the cars of the vecks ittying to rabbit in the factory. My glazzies viddying the leaves, peeting coffee, a cancer in my rooker and my gulliver wondering what’s … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Finale
There may not have been much really new to me here, only in that I’ve taken classes, courses, seminars, and read a lot on writing, but the manner in which this essay was written–and of course, the time–was interesting in … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Composition
Some interesting points made here, in the lyric quality of the writing: Demosthenes: "This decree caused the danger which then beset the city to pass by just-as a cloud." For the thought is expressed throughout in dactylic rhythms, and these … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Voice and Language
Well I must admit, the language is starting to get to me. But there were the golosses of millicents telling them to shut it and you could even slooshy the zvook of like somebody being tolchocked real horrorshow and going … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Diction
Of the five elements named, that is: Concept, Passion, Figures, Diction, and Composition, the course of diction is truly my favorite. It may, however, be pointed out that stately language is not to be used everywhere, since to invest petty … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Society
Interesting development, although not at all unexpected. Alex is the natural leader of his small group of miscreants. He attacked the weakest (minded) member of the group for making comments about a girl singing that Alex actually enjoyed listening to. … Continue reading Continue reading
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LITERATURE: A Clockwork Orange – Theme
Burgess has presented an outrageous future world, and pushed us into it where we stumble about wondering, what the hell happened? There is a schism of wide proportion between the young generation of Alex’s contemporaries and the old, the starry … Continue reading Continue reading
LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Doing What Comes Naturally
Although I don’t quite understand the concept of "figures" as an element of the sublime, I’ve decided to plow ahead and grasp the meaning through the examples given. This appears to relate to the manner in which passion is expressed: … Continue reading Continue reading
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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
LITERATURE: On The Sublime – Imagery
From Longinus (or whoever): Images, moreover, contribute greatly, my young friend, to dignity, elevation, and power as a pleader. In this sense some call them mental representations. In a general way the name of image or imagination is applied to … Continue reading Continue reading
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology