A Clockwork Orange - Burgess, Anthony [28]
But after that they all had a turn, bouncing me from one to the other like some very weary bloody ball, O my brothers, and fisting me in the yarbles and the rot and the belly and dealing out kicks, and then at last I had to sick up on the floor and, like some real bezoomny veck, I evan said: “Sorry, brothers, that was not the right thing at all. Sorry sorry sorry.” But they handed me starry bits of gazetta and made me wipe it, and then they made me make with the sawdust. And then they said, almost like dear old droogs, that I was to sit down and we’d all have a quiet like govoreet. And then P. R. Deltoid came in to have a viddy, his office being in the same building, looking very tired and grahzny, to say: “So it’s happened, Alex boy, yes? Just as I thought it would. Dear dear dear, yes.”
Then he turned to the millicents to say: “Evening, inspector.
Evening, sergeant. Evening, evening, all. Well, this is the end of the line for me, yes. Dear dear, this boy does look messy, doesn’t he? Just look at the state of him.”
“Violence makes violence,” said the top millicent in a very holy type goloss. “He resisted his lawful arresters.”
“End of the line, yes,” said P. R. Deltoid again. He looked at me with very cold glazzies like I had become a thing and was no more a bleeding very tired battered chelloveck. “I suppose I’ll have to be in court tomorrow.”
“It wasn’t me, brother, sir,” I said, a malenky bit weepy.
“Speak up for me, sir, for I’m not so bad. I was led on by the treachery of the others,sir.”
“Sings like a linnet,” said the top rozz, sneery. “Sings the roof off lovely, he does that.”
“I’ll speak,” said cold P. R. Deltoid. “I’ll be there tomorrow, don’t worry.”
“If you’d like to give him a bash in the chops, sir,” said the top millicent, “don’t mind us. We’ll hold him down. He must be another great disappointment to you.”
P. R. Deltoid then did something I never thought any man like him who was supposed to turn us baddiwads into real horrorshow malchicks would do, especially with all those rozzes around. He came a bit nearer and he spat. He spat. He
spat full in my litso and then wiped his wet spitty rot with the back of his rooker. And I wiped and wiped and wiped my spat-on litso with my bloody tashtook, saying “Thank you, sir, thank you very much, sir, that was very kind of you, sir, thank you.” And then P. R. Deltoid walked out without another slovo.
The millicents now got down to making this long statement for me to sign, and I thought to myself, Hell and blast you all, if all you bastards are on the side of the Good then I’m glad I belong to the other shop. “All right,” I said to them, “you grahzny bratchnies as you are, you vonny sods. Take it, take the lot. I’m not going to crawl around on my brooko any more, you merzky gets. Where do you want it taking from, you cally vonning animals? From my last corrective? Horrorshow, horrorshow, here it is, then.” So I gave it to them, and I had this shorthand milicent, a very quiet and scared type chelloveck, no real rozz at all, covering page after page after page after. I gave them the ultra-violence, the crast-ing, the dratsing, the old in-out-in-out, the lot, right up to this night’s veshch with the bugatty starry ptitsa with the mewing kots and koshkas. And