Wednesday, October 25, 2006

The Making and Meaning of Naked Lunch

Wednesday, October 25, 2006
09:17 PM
interestung reading from kuroshin

The Making and Meaning of Naked Lunch: "If William S. Burroughs truly feared a word virus, an idea he often made reference to in his later Nova Trilogy, then Naked Lunch was the ultimate inoculation against that verbal disease. Though it was written before the three books that would comprise the Nova Trilogy (The Soft Machine, The Ticket That Exploded and Nova Express), Naked Lunch was the cure that came before the illness. It was his version of the needle to cure all literary lesions and stem the tide of evils that language has the ability to produce through its constantly changing, adapting, regrouping control systems."



(Via Kuro5hin.org.)

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