Quotes and interpretations
1. Pg. 3, Par 1- Well, what they sold there was milk plus something else. They had no licence for selling liquor, but there was no law yet against prodding some of the new veshches which they used to put in the old moloko, so you could peet it with vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or one or two other veshches which would give you a nice quiet horror show fifteen minutes admiring Bog and All His Holy Angels and Saints in your left shoe with lights bursting all over your mozg.
Interpretation: Alex, is describing what is sold at the Korova milk bar. They sell milk laced with drugs. The milk bar does not have a license to sell liquor, but there is no law it taking these drugs and putting it in the milk. You could take different types of drugs, put it in the milk, and you would begin to have hallucinations for about fifteen minutes.
2. Pg. 12, Par 1- The next thing was to do the Sammy act, which was one way to unload some of our cutter so we’d have more of an incentive like for some shop-crasting, as well as it being a way of buying an alibi in advance, so we went into the Duke of New York on Amis Avenue and sure enough in the snug there were three or four baboochkas peeting their black and suds on SA (state aid).
Interpretation: Alex, is saying that the group must do a generous act for someone. This would give them an advantage just in case they run into trouble with the police. The group heads into the Duke of New York bar and find three old women within, which they decide would be the people they act generously towards.
3. Pg. 15, Par 3- They’ve been in here all night, lads, the old sharps started to creech out, God bless them, there’s no better lot of boys living for kindness and generosity. Been here all the time they have. Not seen them move we haven’t.
Interpretation: One of the old women which Alex and his gang have been generous too is talking to the police who came into the Duke of New York bar. They were wondering what had happened at Slouse’s Shop and had asked Alex and his gang where they have been. The old women said that they have been here all night and have not seen them moved.
4. Pg. 19, Par 2- There were four of us to six of them, like I have already indicated, but poor old Dim, for all his dimness was worth three of the others in sheer madness and dirty fighting. Dim had a real horror show length of oozy or chain round his waist, twice wound round, and he unwound this and began to swing it beautiful in the eyes or glazzies. Pete and Georgie had good sharp nozhes, but I for my own part had a fine starry horrorshow cut-throat britva which, at the time, I could flash and shine artistic.
Interpretation: Alex’s gang prepares for battle with a rival gang. Alex, describes how Dim, though as unintelligent as he is, is strong and brute like, and has a chain around his waist which he used to hit people in the eyes. Pete and Georgie were equipped knives, and Alex himself had an old cut-throat razor.
5. Pg. 25, Par 3- ‘It’s a book,’ I said. ‘It’s a book what you are writing.’ I made the old goloss very coarse. ‘I have always had the strongest admiration for them as can write books.’ Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - and I said: ‘That’s a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?
Interpretation: Alex comes into contact with the unfinished novel, “A Clockwork Orange”. He says he has a strong admiration for people who write books. However, Alex finds the title stupid because he does not understand what the author means by this.
6. Pg. 27, Par 1- Dim still dancing round and making ornaments shake on the mantelpiece (I swept them all off then and they couldn’t shake no more, little brothers) while he filled with the author of A Clockwork Orange, making his litso all purple and dripping away like some very special sort of a juicy fruit.
Interpretation: Dim is dancing around like a fool and playing with ornaments on the mantelpiece, which Alex did not approve of, so Alex knocks them over. Dim then goes and starts punching the author of A Clockwork Orange’s face, making the author’s face all purple.
7. Pg. 37, Par 1- The little speakers of my stereo were all arranged round the room, on ceiling, walls, floor, so, lying on my bed slooshying the music, I was like netted and meshed in the orchestra. Now what I fancied first tonight was this new violin concerto by the American Geoffrey Plautus, played by Odysseus Choerilos with the Macon (Georgia) Phil-Harmonic, so I slid it from where it was neatly filed and switched on and waited.
Interpretation: Alex is describing his room. He talks about how his stereo speakers are all arranged around the room, so he could easily listen to music coming from multiple areas. He describes that as being “netted and meshed in an orchestra.” Alex then talks about how he was in the mood to listen to a new violin concerto named Geoffrey Plautus, so he finds the music, puts it in his stereo, and waits for the music to play.
8. Pg. 50, Par 2- What was actually done that afternoon there is no need to describe, brothers, as you may easily guess all. Those two were unplattied and smecking fit to crack in no time at all, and they thought it the bolshiest fun to viddy old Uncle Alex standing there all nagoy and pan-handled, squirting the hypodermic like some bare doctor, then giving myself the old jab of growling jungle-cat secretion in the rooker. Then I pulled the lovely Ninth out of my sleeve, so that Ludwig van was now nagoy too, and I set the needle hissing on the last movement, which was all bliss. There it was then, the bass strings like govoreeting away from under my bed at the rest of the orchestra, and then the male human goloss coming in and telling them all to be joyful, and then the lovely blissful tune all about Joy being a glorious spark like of heaven, and then I felt the old tigers leap in me and then I Leapt on these two young pitsas.
Interpretation: Alex describes how he had raped the two young girls. He had gotten them drunk and naked, and they did not know what was going on. Alex then injected himself with some stimulant and then took out the Beethoven’s ninth symphony, which he loves to hear in order to get him in the mood for doing something awful. He then rapes the two young girls.
9. Pg. 86, Par 1- So here I was now, two years just to the day of being kicked and changed into Staja 84F, dressed in the heighth of prison fashion, which was a one-piece suit of a very filthy like cal colour, and the number sewn on the groody part just above the old tick-tocker and on the back as well, so that going and coming I was 6655321 and not your little droog Alex not no longer.
Interpretation: Alex says that it has been two years since he had been put into prison and abandoned by his gang. He was dressed in a one-piece suit that all prisoners wore. The number on his sewn on the back was 6655321, which he says he is known as in prison, not Alex.
10. Pg. 141, Par 4- ‘Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog? And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching. ‘Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?’ I didn’t know what made me use those slovos, brothers, which just came like without asking into my Gulliver. And that shut all those vecks up for some reason for a minoota or two. Then one very thin starry professor type chelloveck stood up, his neck like all cables carrying like power from his Gulliver to his plot, and he said:
Interpretation: Alex is under experimentation by the government. As they talk about what to do next, Alex wants to know why he is not involved in taking about what is going to happen to him. He then says “am I just to be a clockwork orange?” That stopped the governmental people from talking for a few moments, which confused Alex, because he did not understand why that phrase would make them pause for a few moments.
Interpretation: Alex, is describing what is sold at the Korova milk bar. They sell milk laced with drugs. The milk bar does not have a license to sell liquor, but there is no law it taking these drugs and putting it in the milk. You could take different types of drugs, put it in the milk, and you would begin to have hallucinations for about fifteen minutes.
2. Pg. 12, Par 1- The next thing was to do the Sammy act, which was one way to unload some of our cutter so we’d have more of an incentive like for some shop-crasting, as well as it being a way of buying an alibi in advance, so we went into the Duke of New York on Amis Avenue and sure enough in the snug there were three or four baboochkas peeting their black and suds on SA (state aid).
Interpretation: Alex, is saying that the group must do a generous act for someone. This would give them an advantage just in case they run into trouble with the police. The group heads into the Duke of New York bar and find three old women within, which they decide would be the people they act generously towards.
3. Pg. 15, Par 3- They’ve been in here all night, lads, the old sharps started to creech out, God bless them, there’s no better lot of boys living for kindness and generosity. Been here all the time they have. Not seen them move we haven’t.
Interpretation: One of the old women which Alex and his gang have been generous too is talking to the police who came into the Duke of New York bar. They were wondering what had happened at Slouse’s Shop and had asked Alex and his gang where they have been. The old women said that they have been here all night and have not seen them moved.
4. Pg. 19, Par 2- There were four of us to six of them, like I have already indicated, but poor old Dim, for all his dimness was worth three of the others in sheer madness and dirty fighting. Dim had a real horror show length of oozy or chain round his waist, twice wound round, and he unwound this and began to swing it beautiful in the eyes or glazzies. Pete and Georgie had good sharp nozhes, but I for my own part had a fine starry horrorshow cut-throat britva which, at the time, I could flash and shine artistic.
Interpretation: Alex’s gang prepares for battle with a rival gang. Alex, describes how Dim, though as unintelligent as he is, is strong and brute like, and has a chain around his waist which he used to hit people in the eyes. Pete and Georgie were equipped knives, and Alex himself had an old cut-throat razor.
5. Pg. 25, Par 3- ‘It’s a book,’ I said. ‘It’s a book what you are writing.’ I made the old goloss very coarse. ‘I have always had the strongest admiration for them as can write books.’ Then I looked at its top sheet, and there was the name- A CLOCKWORK ORANGE - and I said: ‘That’s a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?
Interpretation: Alex comes into contact with the unfinished novel, “A Clockwork Orange”. He says he has a strong admiration for people who write books. However, Alex finds the title stupid because he does not understand what the author means by this.
6. Pg. 27, Par 1- Dim still dancing round and making ornaments shake on the mantelpiece (I swept them all off then and they couldn’t shake no more, little brothers) while he filled with the author of A Clockwork Orange, making his litso all purple and dripping away like some very special sort of a juicy fruit.
Interpretation: Dim is dancing around like a fool and playing with ornaments on the mantelpiece, which Alex did not approve of, so Alex knocks them over. Dim then goes and starts punching the author of A Clockwork Orange’s face, making the author’s face all purple.
7. Pg. 37, Par 1- The little speakers of my stereo were all arranged round the room, on ceiling, walls, floor, so, lying on my bed slooshying the music, I was like netted and meshed in the orchestra. Now what I fancied first tonight was this new violin concerto by the American Geoffrey Plautus, played by Odysseus Choerilos with the Macon (Georgia) Phil-Harmonic, so I slid it from where it was neatly filed and switched on and waited.
Interpretation: Alex is describing his room. He talks about how his stereo speakers are all arranged around the room, so he could easily listen to music coming from multiple areas. He describes that as being “netted and meshed in an orchestra.” Alex then talks about how he was in the mood to listen to a new violin concerto named Geoffrey Plautus, so he finds the music, puts it in his stereo, and waits for the music to play.
8. Pg. 50, Par 2- What was actually done that afternoon there is no need to describe, brothers, as you may easily guess all. Those two were unplattied and smecking fit to crack in no time at all, and they thought it the bolshiest fun to viddy old Uncle Alex standing there all nagoy and pan-handled, squirting the hypodermic like some bare doctor, then giving myself the old jab of growling jungle-cat secretion in the rooker. Then I pulled the lovely Ninth out of my sleeve, so that Ludwig van was now nagoy too, and I set the needle hissing on the last movement, which was all bliss. There it was then, the bass strings like govoreeting away from under my bed at the rest of the orchestra, and then the male human goloss coming in and telling them all to be joyful, and then the lovely blissful tune all about Joy being a glorious spark like of heaven, and then I felt the old tigers leap in me and then I Leapt on these two young pitsas.
Interpretation: Alex describes how he had raped the two young girls. He had gotten them drunk and naked, and they did not know what was going on. Alex then injected himself with some stimulant and then took out the Beethoven’s ninth symphony, which he loves to hear in order to get him in the mood for doing something awful. He then rapes the two young girls.
9. Pg. 86, Par 1- So here I was now, two years just to the day of being kicked and changed into Staja 84F, dressed in the heighth of prison fashion, which was a one-piece suit of a very filthy like cal colour, and the number sewn on the groody part just above the old tick-tocker and on the back as well, so that going and coming I was 6655321 and not your little droog Alex not no longer.
Interpretation: Alex says that it has been two years since he had been put into prison and abandoned by his gang. He was dressed in a one-piece suit that all prisoners wore. The number on his sewn on the back was 6655321, which he says he is known as in prison, not Alex.
10. Pg. 141, Par 4- ‘Me, me, me. How about me? Where do I come into all this? Am I like just some animal or dog? And that started them off govoreeting real loud and throwing slovos at me. So I creeched louder still, creeching. ‘Am I just to be like a clockwork orange?’ I didn’t know what made me use those slovos, brothers, which just came like without asking into my Gulliver. And that shut all those vecks up for some reason for a minoota or two. Then one very thin starry professor type chelloveck stood up, his neck like all cables carrying like power from his Gulliver to his plot, and he said:
Interpretation: Alex is under experimentation by the government. As they talk about what to do next, Alex wants to know why he is not involved in taking about what is going to happen to him. He then says “am I just to be a clockwork orange?” That stopped the governmental people from talking for a few moments, which confused Alex, because he did not understand why that phrase would make them pause for a few moments.