old rhyming sland, he says. A bit of gypsy talk, too. But most of the roots are Slav. Propaganda. Subliminal penetration.There are over 200 nadsat words, here some examples:horrorshow gooddevotchka- woman, girlmalchick- man, boychelloveck-person, man, followbaboochka-old womangroody- breastslovos- wordsgovoreeting-speaking of slovosglazzies-eyesrookers-arms, handslitso-facerot-mouthgulliver-headgloopy-stupidoomny-intelligentmalenky-smallrabbit-workcancers-cigarettespretty polly-moneyBog-godBurgess: In a novel which takes brainwashing as its subject, I intend my own form of brainwashing, which is to force readers to use a Russian dictionary. The vocabulary of my space-age hooligans could be a mixture of Russian and demotic English, seasoned with rhyming slang and the gipsys bolo.But Russian imports are not the only aspect of the language. There are also the repetitions (creech creech creeching away), and the wonderfully laconic use of the word like (Then there was like quiet and we were full of like hate!) 4. PLOT SUMMARYA Clockwork Orange stands as a great literary work, yet most copies weigh in in less than three hundred pages. Written by Anthony Burgess, it spans twenty one chapters ( 21 is the age at which children traditionally become adult, and it is the twenty-first chapter that Alex sees the light and puts the errors of youth behind him) and serves as a cult classic to this day.The first person story is told by Alex, a youth but of fifteen that spends his nights with his friends, or "droogs", terrorizing the public with their bits of "ultraviolence", and engaging in the old "in-out in-out". He is a contradiction of characteristics, as he sips milk (moloko) laced with drugs, and listens to Beethoven while in the midst of raping a young girl.While the story sounds graphic, and in reality is, the book is not explicit. Part of this arises from the author's brilliant language system, nadsat, which in fact translates to "teenag...
