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A Clockwork Orange: 60-year-old teen slang that still shocks
- bergenty 4y agoSure, rape is always going to be edgy and hence “cool” because of how much reverence we treat it with in society. I bet it had no power in for instance ghenghis khan’s Mongolia.
- rmason 4y agoThe things you learn from reading the BBC news. Read the book as a teen a few years after it came out. Remembered at the time that it was banned in Britain. Now I learn my American copy was missing the final chapter. I'm going to have to get to a bookstore this weekend and see if their copy now contains the missing 21st chapter.
- sbuk 4y agoThe book was never banned in the UK, and the film was withdrawn from the UK market at Kubrick's request, and subsequently re-released after his death in 2000.
- tamaharbor 4y ago“No time for the old in-out, love, I’ve just come to read the meter.”
- thedailymail 4y agoA quibble, but the author confuses Greek for Latin in writing "even Alex's name (Alexander ironically meaning 'defender of men') alludes to the Greek word lex, meaning 'law'."