Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays

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275 index addiction, 207–9, 241, 259; and addictpusher relation, 251–52; apomorphine as cure for, 117; and Lexington Narcotic Farm, 256. See also body, the; drugs; heroin Adding Machine, The (Burroughs), 202–3 agents, 39–40, 163, 247–48 Algebra of Need (concept), 109, 112, 184, 241–42 alien life form: Bradley the Buyer as, 229; and breaking of taboos, 221; in “The Dunwich Horror” (Lovecraft), 229; in horror films, 216; and human metamorphosis , 215; and interspecies sex in pulp science fiction, 228–29; and invisibility , 36; and Mugwumps, 118, 120, 162, 171, 173, 215, 217, 229, 234, 246; and New Flesh, 215; and “Weed Men” (Hodgson), 227; Willy the Disk as, 227 Alphaville (Godard), 27 amnesia, 36–37, 38–39 And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (Burroughs and Kerouac), 18 Andersen, Eric, 41 anomics, 28–29, 31; and abjection (Kristeva ), 33–34; and humans as waste products , 27, 29–32, 91–92; and lumpens, 29–30 Ansen, Alan, 23, 39, 57, 103 anthropology, and Naked Lunch, 7, 96, 211–12 anti-Semitism, and Naked Lunch, 47, 50– 51 appendix to Naked Lunch (“Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs”). See under Naked Lunch, part publication of in magazines argot, 5, 15–16, 27, 94–95, 97, 160–62, 256 Artaud, Antonin, 85–86 ayahuasca. See yagé Ballard, J. G., 119, 230 Bang-utot, 164, 221 Bataille, Georges, 29, 144, 190 Baudelaire, Charles, 9, 80, 97 Beat Generation writers, 1–2, 29, 39, 51, 63, 74, 78, 86–88, 99, 104, 107, 109–11, 116, 118, 124, 127, 129, 134, 145, 147–48, 154– 55, 167, 169–70, 178, 189, 227, 235, 236. See also Corso; Ginsberg; Kerouac Beat Hotel, The, 4, 57, 73–74, 80, 84–87, 103, 148 H_M Index.indd 275 3/25/09 7:41:51 AM 276 index Beckett, Samuel, 86, 87, 116, 189 Beiles, Sinclair, 23, 82, 138; Sacred Fix, 207 Berman, Wallace, 143. See also Naked Lunch, part publication of in magazines , “Excerpt from Pantapon Rose” (Semina) Big Table. See under Naked Lunch, part publication of in magazines Black Mountain Review. See under Naked Lunch, part publication of in magazines Blade Runner (Scott), 60, 235, 242 body, the: and abjection (Kristeva), 33; and anomics as social waste, 28–29; Bataille on, 29–30; and Burroughs’ abjection, 27–28, 32–33; in horror films, 219; of junkie as wasted, 27–30, 32; text as extension of, 182; as “theater of operations ,” 131. See also anomics; food Boston Trial of Naked Lunch, 27, 31, 47, 50, 104, 108, 109, 120, 130, 155–56, 167, 178–81. See also censorship Bowie, David, 110, 119, 135, 205 Bowles, Paul, 12, 57, 59, 62, 77, 78, 99, 116, 161, 254; Let It Come Down, 57, 62; The Sheltering Sky, 57 British Journal of Addiction. See under Naked Lunch, part publication of in magazines, “Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs” Burroughs, Joan Vollmer, shooting of, 40–41, 102, 129, 199 Burroughs, William S.: acceptance of by American literary establishment, 120; addiction of, 21, 28, 98–99, 109, 117, 204–5; appearance of, 98; collaborations of, 177–78; as corporation, 184; creation of his own world by, 102–3, 162; fictionalization of background, 129; iconicity of, 157, 168; as invisible author, 36–38; James Grauerholz as editor and advisor to, 177; patrician class background of, 101–2; readings and performances by, 177; Southern upbringing of, 45, 48 Cage, John, 85, 257 Calder, John, 114, 130. See also Naked Lunch, editions Cassady, Neal, 50, 145 Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, 74, 189 censorship, 16, 65, 78, 115, 130, 136–38, 145, 167, 174, 177–78, 183, 185, 215, 231n. 3; influence of on marketing and packaging Naked Lunch, 26, 155, 181–82; and Naked Lunch as uncensored writing, 31, 37, 47, 180; as physical violence to text, 181–82. See also Boston Trial of Naked Lunch; obscenity Chandler, Raymond, 42, 99, 172, 224 Chicago Review, 23, 146. See also under Naked Lunch, part publication of in magazines Choukri, Mohamed, 76, 82 Cities of the Red Night (Burroughs), 137, 261 City Lights Books, 86, 117–18, 144, 145 Cold War, 28, 58, 62, 170, 234–35. See also McCarythism Coleman, Ornette, 116, 171, 256 colonialism. See under homosexuality; Morocco; Naked Lunch, critical approaches , postcolonial; Paris; Tangier Composite City, The, 8, 60–61, 78 “Conspiracy, The” (Burroughs), 23 consumerism: addiction to, 251; and American affluence in 1960s, 28; and heroin sold as a habit, 252; and impact on...