So, I was rereading the Homecoming series again, and I'm sorta happy that I have new insight after reading A Clockwork Orange. (potential spoilers, but not really...)
Are the tolchocks in Memory of Earth/Call of Earth a reference to tolchocks (as in a strike/blow) from A Clockwork Orange? I'm thinking that it's too much of a similarity not to be...but I'm just wondering if anyone else has noticed this.
Posted by Minerva (Member # 2991) on :
Tolchok is just the Russian word for pushing or jabbing. (толчок)
Posted by Iarn Greiper (Member # 10731) on :
Ohhh..ok. So I guess it's more of a language similarity then, since nadsat's also based on russian. Thanks.