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Naked Lunch - Magical Realist - May 8, 2022 Nothing can prepare you for this level of weirdness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koCZ-o50EHY "After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally kills his wife, and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant bugs in a port town in North Africa."-- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102511/ RE: Naked Lunch - C C - May 8, 2022 I recollect part of some documentary that mentioned how the pages of the manuscript got jumbled up, and Kerouac told Burroughs to just leave it in that scrambled order (after reading it that way). Contributing to the non-linear time sequence of the novel. According to one of many legends, Ginsberg misread "naked lust" somewhere in a copy as "naked lunch", thus a title was born. With a relevant meaning for the metaphor devised afterwards. Time for New Bohemians, now hopelessly vintage themselves, to retrospectively chime in: https://youtu.be/tDl3bdE3YQA