A clockwork Orange

"Burgess wrote that the title came from an old Cockney expression "As queer [i.e. strange] as a clockwork orange" ¹. Due to his time serving the British Colonial Office in Malaya, Burgess thought that the phrase could be used to punnningly refer to a mechanically responsive (clockwork) non-human (orang, Malay for "person"). The Italian title, "Un'Arancia ad Orologeria" was interpreted to refer to a grenade. Burgess wrote in his later introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked", that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil.""
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clockwork_Orange
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mange tak. der var da nogle hint. jeg tror faktisk jeg har været inde og se på den side. Jeg må have misset noget i farten :P