NP really. Misc. It was in the air that writers breathe

[Mark Kohut]

"In Anthony Burgess' DEVIL OF A STATE, [1962], a political meeting is held in a movie theatre
while polecats walk the girders near the roof, sneer down at the audience, and dislodge bits of dried
excrement on their heads."---Stanley Edgar Hyman on  early Burgess, in ON CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE, 1964
 
"Alex is only 'a clockwork orange', something mechanical that appears organic"...."Alex always was a clockwork orange,
a machine for mechanical violence far below the level of choice, and his dreary socialist England is a giant clockwork
orange."----same essay.
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