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I allus thought the orange in Burgess' novel's title was a fruit and not a color. What would a clockwork orange do, slowly, but mechanically, decompose?
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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Dunno, but it does explain Cap'n Hook's well-known phobia about citrus.
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Any truth to the rumor that Burgess originally wrote it as A Clockwork Orang and the extraneous e was added somewhere in the publishing process?
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This doesn't mention that; on the other hand, it appears that his opinion would lend credence to the rumor.
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a storyline when there isn't meant to be one.  Good gracious---then, what on earth else is a book for???
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Books are meant to be read Mm. Well, I suppose I was making an unconscious division that textbooks are not "books". Another serious question, possibly stemming from not being awake enough yet: what kind of non-fiction (barring textbooks, manuals, etc.) doesn't have a story line? I've read all the biographies of Rupert Brooke that I could get my hands on, including one that was just letters to and from him. I loved reading the "story" about how his life and his relationships developed; many of his friends fell in love with him, and I did too. History books certainly have a story line.
Back to fiction: one of my dearest friends absolutely loves novels. We've tried exchanging books a couple of times, but our tastes just don't fit. I lent her my first Laurie King--she was unimpressed. She lent me one of her favorites, about a young boy who is longtime pen pals with someone who turns out to be a girl; they marry, of course. I was bored nearly to death, but nothing like I was when she and her sister made me read Secrets of the Ya-ya Sisterhood. [shudder] As to mysteries, I have discovered that prolific writers tend to be a bit formulaic*, which, I suppose, is understandable--I don't see how anybody can write thirty mystery novels and have each one completely different. But I will say for Dick Francis, I love his main characters, and that I have consciously adopted a lot of their characteristics for myself.
*It was interesting to see how his obligatory sex scenes changed as society's permissiveness changed.
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manque as in artist manque (accent over the final e)
received as in accounts received
due as in 'credit due'
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Good ones, joe! Thanks, and welcome aBoard.
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received as in accounts received
due as in 'credit due'
Aren't those last two just predicate adjectives?
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