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"What does God want? Does God want goodness or the choice of goodness? Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"
The story of a violent young delinquent and his subsequent rehabilitation is wound tightly through with a juxtaposition of two diametrically-opposed concepts, as the title suggests: the man-made mechanical merged with the heaven-made organic. Is the suppression of individuality justified by the betterment of society? And does ...more
The story of a violent young delinquent and his subsequent rehabilitation is wound tightly through with a juxtaposition of two diametrically-opposed concepts, as the title suggests: the man-made mechanical merged with the heaven-made organic. Is the suppression of individuality justified by the betterment of society? And does ...more
Nice playing with words (which puts you a little closer to the characters) and somewhat interesting story but I didn't really fall in love with it as most have. There's nothing much to say really. I just didn't get the charm of Alex, for example. Period.
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