I've read testimony from McDowell elsewhere that he and Burgess, the two of them making the publicity rounds together in early 1972 in response to the release of Kubrick's film of 'A Clockwork Orange', got along swimmingly--it sounds like McDowell appreciated Burgess' company better than that of Kubrick's. British Pop artist Allen Jones was the inspiration behind the lewd, nude sculptures central to the film's Korova Milk Bar set--a 1969 exhibition of Jones' provocative furniture-sculptures seen by Kubrick laid the seed of that idea. Kubrick even asked Jones to design the sculptures, which Jones declined, the job going to British sculptor Liz Moore, who had previously created the Starchild seen at the end of '2001: A Space Odyssey'. Apart from the Korova Milk Bar and the passageway (in the Alexander home) and the prison check-in room, a fourth set was specially constructed for the film 'A Clockwork Orange', namely the bathroom in the Alexander residence, where Alex injudiciously, in a moment of relaxed forgetfulness, hums "Singin' in the Rain", ensuring his becoming the object of Mr Alexander's vengeful wrath.

Brilliant bit about inventing slang that doesn't "reek of lavender" by the time of publication. Though Burgess loathed 'A Clockwork Orange' and wished it were forgotten, the plot and (perhaps unconscious) intention continually resonate.

OMG I'M sitting here in 2014 and this interview and set are even more terrifyingly dystopian than the book and movie about which they're talking!

Yes, it's all very chop-chop.

The fall IS will, I think Schopenhauer would say