At 03:35 PM 4/11/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Yeah (he said thoughtfully)..... although in all
the
>cases you cite save NAKED LUNCH the book begins
in
>foursquare reality and only moves into a kind
of
>surrealistic horror at the end. (My favorite case
of
>this is Thompson's A HELL OF A WOMAN,
incidentally.)
>
>Perhaps one can get away with surrealism in the
hb
>approach, but only after a realistic presentation
of
>the world is established.
>
>I don't care for NAKED LUNCH and certainly don't
think
>of it as a hardboiled book.
>
>doug
>
But _Naked Lunch_ does begin in
foursquare reality, with the narrator escaping the police on
the subway. It steadily drops into the surreal from that
point.
James
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