WolfFan <
akwolffan@zoho.com> wrote:
On Sep 27, 2026, Christian Weisgerber wrote
(in article<slrn11birnc.2l40.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>):
On 2026-09-27, s|b<me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A violent teen participates in cutting-edge research.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/orange-is-the-new-bleak
They made an appendix of the words/slang being used:
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:A_Clockwork_Orange>
... a lot of which is transparent if you know Russian, as that
appendix shows. Or you can turn it around and pick up some Russian
vocabulary that way.
Horrowshow.
Thank you for this excellent, extremely interesting (to me) sub-thread.
It's always delightful for Science Fiction stories to do double duty by exposing me to some foreign language along the way.
You guys may know of HORROR SHOW by Christopher Ricks. It's a novel
and movie review that originally appeared in the 6 April 1972 New York
Review of Books. Ricks is worthy of my time because he respects Poe.
Speaking of movies, buyer beware: "Americans have less and less in
common as a people, but we all watch the same TV shows and the same
movies." - Tina Brown. In Other Words, he who makes movies and TV shows controls the helm of the USA. Ergo Charles III mentioning Shakespeare by
name within the first thirty seconds of his first speech to Parliament
as King.
LITTLE MADELEINE by Simon Morden is a Catholic Science Fiction
(CatSF) short story that inverts A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. In it the victim of ultra-violence serves as protagonist:
"Going somewhere, Long Tall Sally?"
She turned and made herself thin, trying to shimmy past.
She succeeded in half falling into another body, and she was
pushed roughly back.
"Asked you a question, rude not to answer."
Behind Madeleine's eyes, the gunfire glittered again.
She barely heard the soft click of a lockblade swinging into
position.
"Do you want me to cut you? Is that it? You going to force
me to put my tag on your cheeks, let everyone know that you're
my property? Is that it, freaky? Or is it that you've never
been had, and you're aching for it.?
"Let me by," she said, in a whisper. "Please."
"What's that, freaky? Can't hear you from down here, where
the normal people live." His voice was the grinding of glass,
the creak of corrugated iron. "If I cut you another mouth,
perhaps you'll talk louder."
"I'm going to be late. I have to get to school."
"Teacher's pet, freaky. Got a nice rosy apple in that bag?
Better take a look."
Not her books. Her discs would become Frisbees and her book,
her precious book, cigarette paper for some foul concoction a
two-cent pusher was passing off as hash.
A furry CatSF short story, DYADS by Pick and Loewen, may be of interest
to Wolf Fans, or at least Fox Fans. It's set on an alien world called
Cathuria where Thalendri, fox-like sentients, mate for life:
As expected, the subject was interconversions, especially
human-to-Eternal-Dance converts. Thalendri mated for life,
pair-bonded by reciprocal pheromones. Lust was as rare a
sin to them as vanity was common; their word for prostitute,
besher/besherai, literally meant "unable to scent-bond," and
was closely related to the root word for insanity-kesh.
Humans were just the opposite; without hardwired pair-bonding
instincts, unable to mix the sacred and the erotic, when they
converted to the Thalendri faith or some human approximation
they eventually drifted into a sex-worshipping fertility cult
worthy of Baalism.
A slight shadow of Islamophobia stains DYADS. Epstein Coalition
colonialism with its accompanying genocide of Palestinians makes my
tolerance for Islamophobia slight.
Danke,
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