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In my professional guise as flackmeister, I used my skills and contacts to get her press, from features on her work to her own boldface name mentions in in the tabs, a "dab of the ol' 15 minutes" at the droogies would say.
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In my professional guise as flackmeister, I used my skills and contacts to get her press, from features on her work to her own boldface name mentions in in the tabs, a "dab of the ol' 15 minutes" at the droogies would say.
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"Cutter on the table, droogies, " said Bully, pulling out his own rattling and chinking mound of deng.
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All the time below my droogies were hard breathing.
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So when word came of an Israeli strike on a farm warehouse in northeastern Lebanon that killed over thirty Syrian Kurds who were loading fruits and vegetables on to trucks, I wondered how long it would take for the Pajamas Media droogies to starting hanging ironic quotation marks about the Lebanese "farm" and its "workers."
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Then my droogies, let's keep the torture out of the headlines and back in Italian splatter movies and horror comics where it belongs - OK?
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Then my droogies, let's keep the torture out of the headlines and back in Italian splatter movies and horror comics where it belongs - OK?
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In the last week or so there's been a rash of news items -- punks and rashes seem to go together -- about Republican candidates and their droogies trying to do the blitzkreig bop on wives, gal pals, and political foes alike.
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However, out of the context of Clockwork Orange, “on my oddy knocky”, “droogies”, and all the other linguistic constructs that made the novel so surreal just sound retarded.
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Oh, his withdrawal convulsions are better than infinite monkeys at infinite keyboards watching the infinite celevrity gossip shows, o my droogies……..
billifer commented on the word droogies
One can infer droogy(-ies) to be DFW's adapted form of, and a nod to, Anthony Burgess' Droogs from A Clockwork Orange. Within the context of Infinite Jest, droogies is used analogously to the way Droogs is used in A Clockwork Orange: by the leader of a group addressing the other members of the group.
Given that Infinite Jest's content matter deals substantially with drug abuse and addiction, the word may be a false paronym for the slang druggies.
December 19, 2006