A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess, 1962
A teenage gang leader who loves violence and Beethoven tells his story in his own invented slang, until the state offers to cure him of choosing.
Anthony Burgess
Burgess said the title came from a Cockney phrase he'd heard in a pub, "as queer as a clockwork orange": something organic made mechanical, which is also the book's argument.
Feels like freedom, unease and morality.
How a gang dresses to be feared, and the ranking stitched into it.
"The four of us were dressed in the height of fashion, which in those days was a pair of black very tight tights with the old jelly mould, as we called it, fitting on the crotch underneath the tights, this being to protect and also a sort of a design you could viddy clear enough in a certain light, so that I had one in the shape of a spider. Pete had a rooker (a hand, that is), Georgie had a very fancy one of a flower, and poor old Dim had a very hound-and-horny one of a clown’s litso (face, that is). Dim not ever having much of an idea of things and being, beyond all shadow of a Doubting Thomas, the dimmest of we four. Books by Anthony Burgess
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