A Clockwork Orange...again
cinnimon@vvm.com
Fri, 19 Mar 1999 04:32:22 +0000
Just today I was out and bought a copy of _A Clockwork Orange_. I know that this
subject has been some what outdated on the list and not to drudge up old topics...but
it was intresting in that the copy I bought is a fairly new edition with an
introduction by Burgess. In the intro he states what he meant by the phrase "A
Clockwork Orange" :
"If [man] can only preform good or only preform evil, then he is a clockwork orange -
meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is
in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil or (since this is
increasingly replacing both) the Almighty State...I mean it to stand for the
application of a mechanistic morality to a living organism oozing with juice and
sweetness."
I couldn't remember as to whether someone had posted this before, but I simply thought
that if they hadn't it might be intresting to see the author's intentions.
-Sarah