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Naked Lunch (1959)
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The title means exactly what the words say: NAKED Lunch—a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork.
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America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting.
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He is a boy sleeping against the mosque wall, ejaculates wet dreaming into a thousand cunts pink and smooth as sea shells...
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Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use of any other drug with special horror.
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If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
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Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
Adelaide Anne Procter
William S. Burroughs
Born:
February 5, 1914
Died:
August 2, 1997
(aged 83)
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