Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

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And nobody denies reality quite as much as a censor. They are wonderfully strange cretins. Hilarious creatures wrapping their heads in cellophane and pretending it makes them invulnerable to bad ideas. Stumbling around like those nurses in Silent Hill. NO SUDDEN MOVEMENTS. Everybody knows only the tin foil can protect you from Tom Cruise's thought signals. Ciardi, John (1991). "The Book Burners and Sweet Sixteen". In Skerl, Jennie; Lydenberg, Robin (eds.). William S. Burroughs At the Front: Critical Reception, 1959-1989. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press. pp.21–22. ISBN 0-8093-1586-6. In my opinion, the movie really does the nearly-impossible by giving a story and a context to a text which has no story and nearly no context. His influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote 18 novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Kadrey, Richard; McCaffery, Larry (1991). "Cyberpunk 101: A Schematic Guide to Storming the Reality Studio". In McCaffery, Larry (ed.). Storming the reality studio: a casebook of cyberpunk and postmodern science fiction. Durham: Duke University Press. p.18. ISBN 978-0-8223-1158-4.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. The restored text edited by James Grauerholz and Barry Miles and first published by Grove in 1961. With additional material by Burroughs, a note on the text by the editors, and an afterword by Barry Ulin. Viiolet and white boards decorated with pattern from the 1959 Olympia Press edition, as new in printed green slipcase. 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 b Glass, Loren (2009). "Still Dirty After All These Years: The Continuing Trials of Naked Lunch". In Harris, Oliver; MacFadyen, Ian (eds.). Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press. pp.177–187. ISBN 978-0-8093-2915-1.A true genius and first mythographer of the mid-twentieth century, William Burroughs is the lineal successor to James Joyce. Naked Lunch is a banquet you will never forget.’ JG Ballard

I have become such a quiet and banal, ordinary househusband. Still trying to WAKE UP... as slowly as humanly possible! Having inadvertently accomplished his mission, Lee flees to Interzone, located in a city somewhere in North Africa. He spends his time writing reports concerning his mission; these documents, at the insistence of his visiting literary colleagues, are eventually compiled into the titular book. While Lee is addicted to assorted mind-altering substances, his replacement typewriter, a Clark Nova, becomes a talking insect which tells him to find Dr. Benway by seducing Joan Frost, a doppelgänger of his dead wife. There is a row at gunpoint with Joan's husband Tom, after Lee steals his typewriter, which is then destroyed by the Clark Nova insect. Lee also encounters Yves Cloquet, who is apparently an attractive young gay Swiss gentleman. However, Lee later discovers that Yves is merely disguised as a human, and that his true form is a huge monstrous shapeshifting centipede. This isn't realistic" enough we exclaim while pointing at the shoulders of the giant upon which we stand. 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.” 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.The vignettes are drawn from Burroughs' own experiences in these places and his addiction to drugs (heroin, morphine, and while in Tangier, majoun [a strong hashish confection] as well as a German opioid, brand name Eukodol, of which he wrote frequently).