Alex's Prison Number in ACO
Wesley Robert Dew
I have two theories concerning Alex's prison number. If you know aything
about numerology or the myth of numbers 6655321 will add up to ten.
Lemme give a quick explanation.
Myth of numbers:
1 = beginnings
2 = discussion, argument, conflict
3 = rightness, correctnes, morals sanctity
4 = body, daily habit, or material world
5 = celbration or celebrate
6 = incompleteness
7 = completeness
8 = doubt
9 = mystery
10 = new beginnings
Ok...knowing all that, take 6655321. All right all you math majors 6+6=12 +
5+5=10 + 3+2+1=6 12+10+6=28....2+8= 10. New beginnings. Hmmm, Chapter 21
(the "legendary missing chapter, the chapter that Kubrick left out b/c he
did not know it existed) Isn't this chapter a new beginning in Your
Humble Narrator's life?
or if you dont buy into that take a story and ad the numbers that
appear. For instance, Alex lives in Flatblock 18a. 1+8=9, mystery. Go
figure. Or even his flat number 10-8, 10+8=18, 1+8=9, mystery.
Coincidence or garbage...I don't think so. Burgess is a careful writer
and you can bet your yarble's that Burgess knows the myth of numbers.
If you don't buy into tht...then there' thoery number two.
6655321. Apollo, this is Houston, your clear for take off.
5,4,3,2,1..ignition. Remember what A Clockwork Orange means. Some feel
that it is symbolic of a hand grenade, or a machine under an organic
skin...etc etc. Isn't Alex a bomb ready to explode? or better yet, isn't
Alex about to e stripped of his free will? or even better, isn't LAex a
dud bomb? He counts down to 0 and then, as in chapter 21, doesn't he
mature? You could go on all day like that, but I won't.
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Grant Garofalo
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the number 655321?
Grant
In article <4lo3r5$g...@infoserver.bgsu.edu> rd...@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Wesley Robert
Dew) writes:>From: rd...@bgnet.bgsu.edu (Wesley Robert Dew)
>Subject: RE: Alex's Prison Number in ACO
>Date: 25 Apr 1996 14:56:37 GMT
otto
ok, how about this one?
alex is six double five three two one, right?
well, when he gets picked up by dim and georgie as cops,
dim's badge number is 655,
and georie's is 321.
(i'm not 100%, but i saw it on a big screen last night and think i saw this).
otto
NAIR HARI GOPINATHAN
In article <jwa3-27049...@132.236.178.121>,
Are you sure? I thouhgt Dim's was 665, and Georgie's was 667. They walk
on either side of Alex when escorting him, making him... that's right...
666. On video, I can clearly see the 665, but I can only vaguely see the
7 on the other guy. I suppose it could be a 1, but I think this scenario
makes more sense than making Georgie and Dim's number the same as Alex's
prison number.
AClokworkO
In article <4m0fdu$i...@peabody.colorado.edu>, na...@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (NAIR
HARI GOPINATHAN) writes:
> I thouhgt Dim's was 665, and Georgie's was 667. They walk
>on either side of Alex when escorting him, making him... that's right...
>666. On video, I can clearly see the 665, but I can only vaguely see the
>7 on the other guy. I suppose it could be a 1, but I think this scenario
>makes more sense than making Georgie and Dim's number the same as Alex's
>prison number.
I believe it's part of the legend of ACO that Georgie's wearing 667...
even though it's pretty much impossible to see on video.. (I'm one of the
unfortunate people who've never seen it on the big screen... :\ we have
one arthouse-type theatre in the town I live, and I asked the manager if
he planned on showing it this year, it being the 25th anniversary, and he
said no, that it was too many reels, and they couldn't afford to ship it.)
I have a question about a plot point here... In the book, the two
policemen are Dim and Billyboy (Alex's main rival)... and for the longest
time, I thought that wass who it was in the movie. (I have an abnormaly
hard time recognising faces.) Anybody have any ideas on why Kubrick might
change this? I personally think it was better to have Billyboy as the
second millicent... he has more reason to hate Alex than Georgie does...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Theresa Workman (AClok...@aol.com)
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Wildermuth
> I have a question about a plot point here... In the book, the two
> policemen are Dim and Billyboy (Alex's main rival)... and for the longest
> time, I thought that wass who it was in the movie. (I have an abnormaly
> hard time recognising faces.) Anybody have any ideas on why Kubrick might
> change this? I personally think it was better to have Billyboy as the
> second millicent... he has more reason to hate Alex than Georgie does...
> Any ideas?
Well, it seems to me that Kubrick looks for logic in things (like him
asking King how a ghost could let a man out of a freezer), and it seems
illogical to have Dim and Billyboy millicents together, because they're
rivals of each other as well as to Alex. Another thing, I think Georgie
has enough reason to hate Alex, because after Georgie trying to speak his
mind to Alex, Alex taught him a thing or two by caning him in the
crotch. I don't know about y'all but I wouldn't want to have a droogy
that had THAT much control of things...
Mike Ganopoulos
Robert Daeley
In article <4mlcue$2...@cambridge.emi.net>, mg65...@toledo.emi.net (Mike
Ganopoulos) wrote:
> Grant Garofalo (cybe...@theriver.com) wrote:
>
> : Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the number 655321?
I'm pretty sure that in the book, it's 655321, but in the movie, it's 6655321.
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In <rdaeley-0605...@user108.empirenet.com> rda...@empirenet.com writes:
> In article <4mlcue$2...@cambridge.emi.net>, mg65...@toledo.emi.net (Mike
> Ganopoulos) wrote:
>
> > Grant Garofalo (cybe...@theriver.com) wrote:
> >
> > : Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the number 655321?
>
> I'm pretty sure that in the book, it's 655321, but in the movie, it's 6655321.
Nope. During the strip-search sequence, the warder says "You are now six
double-five three two one..."
Danse Macabre
> : Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the number 655321?
> I'm pretty sure that in the book, it's 655321, but in the movie, it's 6655321.
> Nope. During the strip-search sequence, the warder says "You are now six
> double-five three two one..."
Actually, he merely got the order backwards. The book being 6655321 and the movie being
655321.
Danse...