Naked Lunch
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Naked Lunch
William S. Burroughs
Literature
Christopher Rohland
Dec 17, 2018
During his early career, Burroughs was characterized as a failed sci-fi writer but he is true futurist, working easily at the same level of Toffler, McLuhan or Fuller, but with a much sharper prose style. To paraphrase Prof. John Tytell, Burroughs may have actually possessed some highly adapted antenna that could pick up The Future. Naked Lunch was published in 1959, was extraordinarily prescient for that time, and IMO socially and politically more accurate today. All academic and intellectual blah-blah-blah aside, reading Burroughs is like listening to that first rock song that just burned down to your core.
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Jessica
Dec 12, 2024
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