“Don’t Bring Me Dim” While I stopped reading most fiction …

“Don’t Bring Me Dim”

While I stopped reading most fiction books ages ago (would favor a textbook about chip-making equipment for beach reading over fiction— and have), there are a handful worth reading bc they stay with you for life. “A Clockwork Orange” is one of those books. Unable to recommend it enough.

My advice is to read it without a glossary. This will be admittedly painful in the first chapter. My version of the book didn’t have a glossary so I prolly read the first chapter 20x before beginning the 2nd chapter— but I’m really really anal about reading when it comes to words I don’t know. If you don’t believe me— I started a dictionary company whose product SLictionary.com would’ve been EXACTLY whatbInwosh I had when I read Clockwork O. But the vernacular (my favorite Wmflish word ever btw) is just the fun part of the book— the words you learn like “viddy”, “tolchok” (inSlic), “rookers” and “krovvy” will stay with you a loooong time, but it’s the overal theme and purpose of the book which will stay with you the longest and be of most value to you.

Grow Up!

Before buying the book— it’s one you should own in hardback— not rent— make sure you get the Anthony Burgess English-version original— the one including the vital last chapter. If you don’t get the last chapter, the entire purpose of the book is meaningless. When the American editors in New York got ahold of the manuscript from Burgess they wanted to kill the last chapter bc they preferred the “unhappy ending” for their audience. Poppycock! Bad whimpy decision. The last chapter gives you the life lesson.

Whippersnapper!

Now, I could tell you what I got from the book, but that would ruin it. But it’s a lesson Inobserve over and over and over again. It has to do with…
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But it has to do with so much more than Bruce’s somewhat juvenile dirty. The world can be really fucking dim, and sometimes you’re the cause of it, but just make sure you come out good in the end. We all have our youth if we survive it.

And don’t forget to Write a Burgessian glossary word or two here SLictionary.com/CreateWord/VIDDY/@/@/
and hopefully your future earnings will pay for your book purchase and many more on top of it. You can also own the words, in NFTs, by putting up $2 or more bounties and becoming a word baron here:

SLictionary.com/BeABaron/@/

If you put one up I’ll define it (without winning) myself so you can own my NFT along with any other definitions submitted by contestants.
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