Before I got all sidetracked, we were in London, and it’s calling me back now. I’m planning an actual, real life trip to England in the spring, just bought my plane ticket and everything.

So, since I’ll actually be there in the not too distant future, I thought it was time to let Anthony Burgess take us to one of his versions of London in the not too distant future. I’m speaking, of course, of A Clockwork Orange, a master work of linguistics and storytelling.

Apparently, in Burgess’s future horror, the Soviets have won the Cold War, and all the hoodlums in the streets speak a particularly Russian flavor of slang. Alex and his droogs are particularly fascinated with groodies, of which I have quite a horrorshow if not overly bolshy pair, a bust of which is hanging (nay, sagging) over my fireplace, but that’s another story altogether.

Ta ta, for now.

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