Mercnbeth
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~ Fast Reply ~ Maybe its a generational thing and people aren't as familiar with the book and film but I always thought that the movie containing this dialog would make an interesting 'lifestyle' model. Surprised no one has mentioned one of the easiest movie plots to base a lifestyle; at least from the male Dom perspective. Dialog like this:
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence. We were all feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it being a night of no small expenditure. Well, well, well! Well if it isn't fat stinking billy goat Billy Boy in poison! How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if ya have any yarble, ya eunuch jelly thou!
And the first thing that flashed into my gulliver was that I'd like to have her right down there on the floor with the old in-out, real savage. Yes - it's spoken by Malcolm McDowel's, 'Alex' character in the Kubrick's treatment of the Anthony Burgess novel a 'Clockwork Orange'. The book is an excellent source of lifestyle material from language to preferred drink. Very similar to Gor, but without as many chapters. Perhaps if Burgess wrote in a time of sequels instead of 1971 there would be more Bible verses. Burgess was a fan of Orwell and wrote a detailed documentary of the book 1984 which obviously influenced his anti-establishment, anti-government social manipulation plot line in Clockwork Orange. His other screenplay's 'Jesus of Nazareth' and 'Moses the Lawgiver' indicate that he has a predilection for creating 'lifestyle' rules.
On a related note, I wonder if the process of condemnation and/or mocking another's choice or preface says more about the mocker or the mockers subject? Why would someone dedicate effort on someone or something they find silly, and meaningless? Is seeing another's relationship, real or on-line, a source of jealousy? What's the difference between people who live under a the rules of 'Gor' and those living under the rules of older fairy tale which begins with a children's story about the entire universe being created in 6 days? Or the story about god's law written on gold plates stored in a church basement. Or the story about Xenu, dictator of the Galactic Confederacy bringing and storing original human essence around earth volcanoes. Hey people achieve some sense of belonging and contentment as members of these lifestyles. Great art has been created, a fantastic choir, and a blockbuster movie 'Battlefield Earth'. Okay - I guess they really don't do so good with movies. Really - does it matter that one is more silly than the other? Whose reality isn't 'silly' in some form especially when that one form or aspect is taken and analyzed out of the context of the whole? Is a symptom of this need to mock and belief in a personal one true way, manifested by the lack of mirrors in the person's residence?
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