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... Burroughs's art has two sources . The first is an entirely justified suspicion that Naked Lunch may be read as a marriage manual , that Burroughs means to reveal the true violent content of our sexuality . The other , con- firmed by his ...
... Burroughs's art has two sources . The first is an entirely justified suspicion that Naked Lunch may be read as a marriage manual , that Burroughs means to reveal the true violent content of our sexuality . The other , con- firmed by his ...
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... Burroughs's language , the reader finds it incompatible with his own speech . Yet the novels have entered the reader's experience ; their language now exists in his body . Attempting to exert his sense of personal continuity , the ...
... Burroughs's language , the reader finds it incompatible with his own speech . Yet the novels have entered the reader's experience ; their language now exists in his body . Attempting to exert his sense of personal continuity , the ...
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... Burroughs , is unspeakable . To his own vision of infinite space , Burroughs deliberately op- poses the need to enclose radical experience in protective frames . " He himself prefers an image of the astronaut's vulnerable body about to ...
... Burroughs , is unspeakable . To his own vision of infinite space , Burroughs deliberately op- poses the need to enclose radical experience in protective frames . " He himself prefers an image of the astronaut's vulnerable body about to ...
Contents
ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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