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Even we here at Shmoop have to reach for the dictionary as we read through The Wanting Seed. Anthony Burgess uses so many high falutin' words that the novel may as well be a love letter to the Queen's English. Given the novel's dystopian setting, the traditional vocabulary presents a strong contrast to the strangeness of the futuristic world—so much so that it's tempting to think that Burgess is playing with our sense of social change by refusing to make the future world sound very different from the past.