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Any William S. Burroughs experts out there?
Can't find my copy of Naked Lunch--nothing in my local bookstore, and no books of his online. I'm looking for a quote from Naked Lunch that is a sample of the main character's writing (I know "main character" really doesn't fit but, oh well..) where he describes New Orleans. Ring a bell?
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- injanierLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Go to amazon.com and you can search the book for specific text. The closest thing I could find to a description of New Orleans was "we [...] start for New Orleans past iridescent lakes and orange gas flares, and swamps and garbage heaps, alligators crawling around in broken bottles and tin cans, neon arabesques of motels, marooned pimps scream obscenities at passing cars from islands of rubbish...
New Orleans is a dead museum. We walk around Exchange Place breathing PG and find The Man right away. It's a small place and the fuzz always know who is pushing so he figures what the hell does it matter and sells to anybody. We stock up on H and backtrack for Mexico." --page 14 of the Grove Press paperback.
- 1 decade ago
i have the book, made no sense, but if you try to be more specific, i may be able to find. he also describes nola in a few other books, there' s a reference in junky too
