Comment Re: A Clockwork Orange? (Score 1) 331
The "A Clockwork Orange" you are referring to here is not one which was supported by Anthony Burgess - it is the Kubrick film, based on the American edition of the book. Burgess hated this film with a passion.
This edition had the most important (final) chapter culled, as the publishers did not think that an American audience would buy a book without a defined (formulaic) ending.
In Burgess' book Alex does remeet with his old peers - most notably Pete, who has grown up and found a wife. While Alex is again free to pursue a life of violence, he _begins_ to choose not to.
Anyway, the whole point of the final chapter was to illustrate that we all make mistakes in our youth, and maybe that the older we get the easier it is to assimilate us into *polite* society ;) Everything in this book is based on the idea of free choice. The one problem I have with the 'curing' of Alex is that it is a simple reversal of procedure - after he assists the government in retaining power over those who speak out against it.
In other words, if you want your mind restored to its natural form, you have to sell out the people on slashdot.org ;)
This edition had the most important (final) chapter culled, as the publishers did not think that an American audience would buy a book without a defined (formulaic) ending.
In Burgess' book Alex does remeet with his old peers - most notably Pete, who has grown up and found a wife. While Alex is again free to pursue a life of violence, he _begins_ to choose not to.
Anyway, the whole point of the final chapter was to illustrate that we all make mistakes in our youth, and maybe that the older we get the easier it is to assimilate us into *polite* society
In other words, if you want your mind restored to its natural form, you have to sell out the people on slashdot.org
