Life with engaged roommates is not always blissful
By Sandi Haraguchi
■ The Daily Universe
Brigham Young U.
While engaged couples may bo bliss
fully happy, their roommates often pay
the price, according to some students at
Brigham Young U.
Senior Beck l/icev, who has lived with
four engaged roommates, said his initial
reactions to the engagements were pos
itive.
"It's really great for the first little
while. Then it starts to get old because
you just got another roommate, his
Orange
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lished 25 years ago, is the tale of a
young 21st century thug who is
“reformed” by the state through behav
ior programming. The book's concepts
grew out of ideas in Huxley’s “Brave
New World“ and Orwell’s “1984," giving
the work a depth of nch literary tradi
tion. For the novel, Burgess created
N'adsat. his own language, a complex
linguistic marriage of English and
Russian prefixes and suffixes.
The book was made into a movie by
director Stanley Kubrick. In the book
and movie's classic ending Alex
returns to his violent ways, laughingly
stating, “I was cured all right."
And there, for a quarter century, the
story ended. The problem is that the 21st
chapter is a denouement, and it changes
the book's entire meaning.
My New York publisher believed
that my 21st chapter was a sellout,"
Burgess writes in a new introduction to
the text “It was veddy, veddy, British,
don’t you know It was bland and it
showed a Pelagian unwillingness to
accept that a human being could be a
model of unregenerable evil
In the “missing" 21st chapter, the de
programmed Alex simply grows bored
with violence. He sees it as the pastime
of the young and comes to realize that
he feels a need to do something produc
tive with his life — to get married, have
children and build, as opposed to
destroy. The 21st chapter shows him
envisioning this new future.
“There was Your Humble Narrator
Alex coming home from work to a good
hot plate of dinner, and there was this
ptisa all welcoming and greeting like
loving.
"But 1 could not viddv her all that hor
rorshow, brothers, I could not think who
it might be...in a cot was laying gurgling
goo goo goo my son Yes yes yes brothers,
mv son. And now I felt this bolshy big
hollow inside my plott, feeling very sur
prised too at myself. I knew what was
happening, 0 my brothers. 1 was like
growing up."
The question, of course, is whether the
chapter adds to or detracts from the con
ceptual design of “A Clockwork Orange.
Unfortunately, a human being can be
a model of unregenerable evil. More
power to Burgess for maintaining his
innocent vision, but if he is to convey it
in a novel there still must be character
motivation and believability.
Nevertheless, this re-issue is impor
tant. As the publisher’s note mentions,
“Whichever is true, the larger truth is
that 'A Clockwork Orange’ is a modern
classic which must, indeed, be made
available to Anthony Burgess’s
American readers precisely in the form
he wishes it to be
fiancee." l/OC<‘\- said “At the saint' time,
you’re losing a good friend
"I went through a lot of pain because I
couldn't figure out at first why one of my
best friends suddenly wouldn't talk with
me and we lived in the same apart
ment."
According to .Joel .1 Moss, a Bi l' pro
fessor of family sciences who teaches a
preparation-for-marriage class, an
engagement is “a way of telling the other
roommates goodbye."
“What they experience will vary from
roommate to roommate What generally
happens, however, is that roommates
will tend to look at the formal engage
ment to mean'don't intrude ’ l his is hard
for a roommate who has been a close
friend."
The issue of privacy is also sensitive
for some roommates Senior Hilda
Fontanet. who has lived with five
engaged women at BYlsaid she herself
frequently felt intruded upon "t )ne time
1 was changing and my roommate came
in the bedroom Her fiance was following
and 1 had to sav ‘Excuse me. tins is my
room, too Will you please let me change7’
After that 1 changed in another bedroom
or the bathroom,” she said.
One possible reason tor such tension,
according to Moss, is that people don’t
know how to act when their roommates
become engaged.
"The engagement Itecotnes like a wall
between the roommates," lie said
(Hirers simply may not like their room
mate's spouse to-be 1' ontanet, for exam
pie, said she and her roommates were
concerned and unhappy with their room
mate's choice.
“I le wasn't good enough for her It hurt
seeing her change and settle lor some
thing less than she could have had," she
said
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