How can I expect to connect with others when I can't even connect with myself? It's no wonder so many people online value pornography. It's the only time they're ever really in touch with themselves. Y'know?

Burroughs was uninvolved with the writing of the film's script and granted his blessing to the first draft in December 1989. This version opened the film with a short story from Burroughs' Exterminator!. [13] Another powerful inspiration was self-hatred. Burroughs existed in two selves, one of which felt a deep loathing for the other. In a letter to Ginsberg on the subject of a "resolution of my queerness" - a matter that also troubled the recipient - he described a dream in which he was introduced to "my non-queer persona". Burroughs No 1 walked into a room to see Burroughs No 2 "looking at me with hate. So I said, 'I don't seem to be exactly welcome'." The replica screamed: "I hate you!" With good reason, too, Burroughs added. Later, he would give this intruder the name "the Ugly Spirit". Boyd, Susan C. (2009). Hooked: Drug War Films in Britain, Canada, and the U.S. University of Toronto Press. p. 210. ISBN 978-1442610170. Softcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. A crisp, clean, tightly bound softcover copy appearing unread, presenting light shelf wear only.

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I'm still trying to figure out the literary value of stuff like this. Any English profs out there care to explain why this made it into the canon? I ask this in all seriousness - I really can't figure it out. Maybe it does belong on the list - in which case, I want to know the purpose of such lists. Well as, one judge said to the other, 'Be just and if you can't be just be arbitrary.' Regret cannot observe customary obscenities.”

Martyn, Warren; Wood, Adrian. "Bart on the Road". BBC. Archived from the original on 11 April 2004 . Retrieved 6 March 2008. The strange life and times of Naked Lunch were not over. In 1962, the book became the subject of an obscenity case in Boston, which cleared the way for mainstream acceptance in the US. Burroughs did not attend the trial, at which Norman Mailer described him as "the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius", a description which does not seem as far fetched now as it did then, taking into account the demonic connotations of possession. By that time, Burroughs had renounced all the work he had done, and was aiming for "a point where my writing has the danger and immediate urgency of bullfighting". Ginsberg was advised that he would not be capable of understanding the new method "until you have the necessary training". The only other censorship action against the book outside the State of Massachusetts occurred in Los Angeles, where the novel was cleared of obscenity charges at a trial in 1965." Chris Walas was hired to perform the special effects for the film. The film required fifty bug typewriters. [15] Music [ edit ] Naked Lunch is a non-linear narrative without a clear plot. The following is a summary of some of the events in the book that could be considered the most relevant.The book begins with the adventures of William Lee (also known as "Lee the Agent"), who is Burroughs' alter ego in the novel. His journey starts in the U.S. where he is fleeing the police in search of his next fix. There are short chapters describing the different characters he travels with and meets along the way. Ploog, Jürgen (2009). "A Bombshell in Rhizomatic Slow Motion: The Reception of Naked Lunch in Germany". In Harris, Oliver; MacFadyen, Ian (eds.). Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. pp.127–128. ISBN 978-0-8093-2915-1.

A love/hate relationship...I'm thinking about it still, at least overnight. God, I hope this doesn't intrude on my dreams... Provocative, influential, morbidly fascinating, Naked Lunch is an apocalyptic ride through the darker recesses of the human psyche. Wain, John (December 1, 1962). "The Great Burroughs Affair". The New Republic . Retrieved 2 July 2023. Naked Lunch is a 1991 surrealist science fiction drama film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, and Roy Scheider. It is an adaptation of William S. Burroughs' 1959 novel of the same name, and an international co-production of Canada, Britain, and Japan.

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The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.” Fast forward about 6 years, I'm in the middle of a long federal prison stretch, my literary receptors have become more pronounced. I'm getting through long-winded books like Infinite Jest, War and Peace, etc. a b Seymour, Gene (5 January 1992). "MOVIES: Out to Lunch With the Guru of Gross-Out: David Cronenberg says the only way he could be faithful to William S. Burroughs' celebrated 'Naked Lunch' on film was to betray it". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017 . Retrieved 9 April 2017.

Lodge, David (1971). "Objections to William Burroughs". The Novelist at the Crossroads and Other Essays in Fiction and Criticism. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, Ltd. pp.161–171.I don't feel like I read this so much as survived it. You can bet I will not be reading the other two Burroughs novels on the 1001 books list. What do they take me for, some kind of masochist? So that means I only have to read 999 books, which is fine by me. Though I have a feeling that a couple of others on the list are going to turn me off in the same way. The film score is composed by Cronenberg's staple composer, Howard Shore, and features free jazz musician Ornette Coleman. The music of the Master Musicians of Jajouka led by Bachir Attar is also featured throughout the film. The use of Coleman's composition "Midnight Sunrise", recorded for his Dancing in Your Head album, is relevant, as author William S. Burroughs was present during the 1973 recording session. [18] Release [ edit ] Box office [ edit ] Ayscough, Suzan (14 October 1992). " 'Lunch,' 'Leolo' to battle for top '92 Genie honors". Variety . Retrieved 25 August 2016. Burroughs originally used the title Interzone for his manuscript. [4] He also considered several titles involving the Sargasso Sea, including Meet Me in Sargasso and The Sargasso Trail, possibly inspired by William Hope Hodgson's Sargasso Sea Stories. [5] I'm heterosexual and didn't like the pornographic gay imagery sprinkled between the drug stuff. I can handle this kind of content if it functions correctly in a work, Hubert Selby jr. comes to mind.