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Hemlocker, I assure you I took the word moron in total jest... it is one
of my words too. In a Clockwork Orange this real moron spends the first half of the book as a deranged drunken addict performing violence -- senseless violence on neighbors, weaklings and winos. The second half he is encarcerated and forced behavior modification via classical conditioning, to experience pain and electro-shock while watching violent scenes of movies. We are left with an unsettleing feeling about the golden rule: "what goes around..."
posted by
kingmi
on August 15, 2005 at 3:07 PM
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kingmi
I can't imagine anyone having a wonderful reaction to Churchill. After the war, his own people turned him out lickety-split as I recall. So was that it? By the way, why should I see A CLOCKWORK ORANGE? I didn't have much interest in it when it came out in 1971. Supposedly it was intended as a morality play asking "How can evil be eradicated in modern society?" Then there was the quotation "as queer as a clockwork orange", meaning something bizarre internally, but apparently natural. human and normal on the surface." Yes, at times I may fit that definition, though in my case, it might apply both internally and externally. Perhaps you could clear this up for me. In many ways, I am not the world's most insightful person either, though I would stop short of using the word moron, which I meant only in jest. Perhaps a clockwork orange might describe my sense of humor, though "the old ultra-violence" certainly never has been in my nature.
posted by
Hemlocker
on August 15, 2005 at 6:57 AM
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Hemlocker and Madame. I think you both have analyzed this question
well, and responded admirably. However, the answer I was going for was either his hydrophobia, or his reaction to Churchill. What do you think?
posted by
kingmi
on August 14, 2005 at 8:13 PM
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He didn't have enough caviar?
posted by
Hemlocker
on August 14, 2005 at 7:44 PM
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Um, cause he was...
crazy? Btw, when was the last time you actually commented on my blog? (Bonus question: who was president at the time?)
Don't, like, assume my clicks are a "given".
A is for Amy who fell down the stairs.
posted by
Mademoiselle
on August 14, 2005 at 5:05 AM
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