Mariner and Wedding Guest in William Burroughs'" Naked Lunch"
AC Hilfer - Criticism, 1980 - JSTOR
AC Hilfer
Criticism, 1980•JSTORThe ambience of Naked Lunch is established in its first narrative passage. The narrator
beats the police into a subway train with the help of a young" Ivy league, advertising exec
type fruit" who holds back the door for him. 1 In describing his momentary ally the narrator
adopts an ingratiating insider's tone with the reader:
beats the police into a subway train with the help of a young" Ivy league, advertising exec
type fruit" who holds back the door for him. 1 In describing his momentary ally the narrator
adopts an ingratiating insider's tone with the reader:
The ambience of Naked Lunch is established in its first narrative passage. The narrator beats the police into a subway train with the help of a young" Ivy league, advertising exec type fruit" who holds back the door for him. 1 In describing his momentary ally the narrator adopts an ingratiating insider's tone with the reader:
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