Was in the mood to find some explanation for the meaning of the words "clockwork orange".
Anthony Burgess wrote that the title was a reference to an alleged old Cockney expression "as queer as a clockwork orange".¹ Due to his time serving in the British Colonial Office in Malaysia, Burgess thought that the phrase could be used punningly to refer to a mechanically responsive (clockwork) human (orang, Malay for "person").
:? Hm, to me it seems like it's about the inner nature one has to hide very often in the modern society.
There is the caveman inside of us - the human basic, which often doesn't want to understand some of the difficulties modern life brings.
And there's also the inner child which often rather wants to play instead of hard working.
So sometimes people just don't fit into the clockwork and... ahem... wanna do their own thing, hahaha! Well, but I think it's true, that life can bother you with a bunch of nonsense oddments, while you feel the longing for rather satisfying some basic and primitive needs.
:shock: Man, D.T.R are like Motörhead to me (so the similar "cowboys in the desert" pictures are even more hilarious
)! Never expected them to be
that pensive and profound! Now someone tell me again rockers are stupid idiots!