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Paley Pale
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Paley Pale asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago

What is the last chapter in William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch?

I am reading the restored text and I'm curious which chapter officially ends the original novel. Is it Hauser and O'brien or The Atrophied Preface? Or is it something completely different? I feel like somebody has been shaking me violently throughout this book.

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    1 decade ago
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    I have a Grove Press copy from 1978 (cover price $2.95!).

    It ends with The Atrophied Preface, and then there's an appendix.

    Yeah, Burroughs kicks you around a bit in that book doesn't he? I like it.

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