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Book Review: Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
Sanguine poetry dressed in the sex and suffering of addiction. That’s how I wish I could describe Naked Lunch. Addiction is horrifying. Worse than any disease, more debilitating than any ordinary suffering, it is the surrender of one’s identity to … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, fiction
Tagged addiction, allen ginsberg, beat generation, beatnik, classics, drugs, essays, heroin, homosexuality, jack kerouac, Naked Lunch, obscenity, William S. Burroughs
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A World Without Logos
The older he got the more he realized that sobriety was a condition he was growing increasingly allergic to. He would have attacks. Pangs of panic as his face flushed red with an anxiety that was a distant as the … Continue reading
Posted in Creative Fiction, fiction
Tagged addiction, alcohol, anxiety, drugs, fear, learning to smile, Life, Love, potions, reality, self-medication, sobriety, world
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