RARA-AVIS: Naked Lunch

From: Michael Robison ( miker_zspider@yahoo.com)
Date: 20 Oct 2006


Read this during a long travel day this week. I've read lots of praise for it. Evidently Burroughs is revealing the depths of depravity borne of drug addiction, sadism, and pedophilia. I was glad to find out that my suspicion that these things are being glorified is unwarranted. Communicable disease and every imaginable human excretion figure largely. The how-bad-can-I-make-it attitude is reminiscent of fellow Beat author Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn.

This book couldn't be published today. No publisher would touch the satire on Islamism.

miker

__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

RARA-AVIS home page: http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/
  Yahoo! Groups Links

<*> To visit your group on the web, go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/

<*> Your email settings:
    Individual Email | Traditional

<*> To change settings online go to:
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rara-avis-l/join
    (Yahoo! ID required)

<*> To change settings via email:
    mailto: rara-avis-l-digest@yahoogroups.com
    mailto: rara-avis-l-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com

<*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:
     rara-avis-l-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

<*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to:
    http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
 



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 20 Oct 2006 EDT