BtZ42: on the road to Greenwich

[Mark Kohut]

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The English Penguin Books Restored text edition assumes--or knows?-- it
influenced Pynchon.
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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William S Burroughs
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A cultural landmark and the most shocking novel in the English language, *Naked
Lunch* is an exhilarating ride into the darkest recesses of the human
psyche. An unnerving tale of an addict unmoored in New York, Tangier, and
ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, *Naked Lunch*'s
formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter, and tour de force
execution has exerted its influence authors like Thomas Pynchon and J. G.
Ballard; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of
music, film, and media in general.

On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 5:35 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> On 25.03.2016 17:22, Monte Davis wrote:
>
> ... So... why an adenoid (i.e. a tonsil), rather than an appendix or
> spleen or hypothalamus? Why human tissue at all, rather than some other
> stand-in for Osmo's fears? Its slimy protoplasmic aspect led me on first
> reading to think of SF movies:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Master_X-7
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_II>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatermass_II
>
> And its _sshhlop_ing of the troops is parodically close to a scene of the
> Martian death ray in Wells' The War of the Worlds.
>
> All I got -- not much -- is a vague association of the "adenoidal" voice
> with a nasal drawl allegedly common among the UK twits and toffs who might
> have populated the Foreign Office in those days. Still around under new
> management:
>
> <http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/that-adenoidal-nasally-geek-voice>
> http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/that-adenoidal-nasally-geek-voice
>
> And Gogol's Nose:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nose_(Gogol_short_story)
>
>
>
> The word "adenoid" also appears in Naked Lunch:
>
>
> https://books.google.de/books?id=8r4cBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT78&lpg=PT78&dq=adenoid++%22naked+lunch%22&source=bl&ots=YNC0HlpPxh&sig=BPDoowd0_TTYShFszA2npU8SneI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiowqr59t3LAhXC0RQKHYCtDwYQ6AEIIjAB#v=onepage&q=adenoid%20%20%22naked%20lunch%22&f=false
>
> In its more sarcastic passages, the sound of Gravity's Rainbow resembles
> that of Burroughs' novel. And "Meeting of International Conference of
> Technological Psychiatry" sounds like something Pynchon could have come up
> with in part 4 of GR. Does anybody know for sure whether Pynchon actually
> read Burroughs' novels and what he thinks about them?
>
>
>
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