Post by maddogblues on Dec 11, 2009 13:01:25 GMT -5
www.salon.com/aug97/news/news970804.html
He's one of my favorite writers and his work is even more relevant now than it was when he wrote it 60 years ago.
"And the U.S. drag closes in around us like no other drag in the world, worse than the Andes, high mountain towns, cold wind down from postcard mountains, thin air like death in the throat ... But there is no drag like U.S. drag. You can't see it, you don't know where it comes from. Take one of those cocktail lounges at the end of a suburban street -- every block of houses has its own bar and drugstore and market and liquorstore. You walk in and it hits you. But where does it come from? Not the bartender, not the customers, nor the cream-colored plastic rounding the bar stools, nor the dim neon. Not even the TV. And our habits build up with the drag ..."
The book is here: books.google.com/books?id=MlvMaAKiobgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Naked+intitle:Lunch+inauthor:burroughs&as_brr=0&ei=aYUiS83kBoTmlASHldnICw&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The 1966 obscenity trial in Boston was a watershed moment. It is foremost in a rather large group of banned books released from the hysteria of those that banned them.
Burrough's insight into human nature, society and culture was acute. The way he chose to describe what he saw makes it a work of art not soon to be excelled in audacity, depth and with an understanding that is a coldly, fundamentally accurate description of things the way they are. .
You can read them here on google's banned book emporium.
books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/
He's one of my favorite writers and his work is even more relevant now than it was when he wrote it 60 years ago.
"And the U.S. drag closes in around us like no other drag in the world, worse than the Andes, high mountain towns, cold wind down from postcard mountains, thin air like death in the throat ... But there is no drag like U.S. drag. You can't see it, you don't know where it comes from. Take one of those cocktail lounges at the end of a suburban street -- every block of houses has its own bar and drugstore and market and liquorstore. You walk in and it hits you. But where does it come from? Not the bartender, not the customers, nor the cream-colored plastic rounding the bar stools, nor the dim neon. Not even the TV. And our habits build up with the drag ..."
The book is here: books.google.com/books?id=MlvMaAKiobgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=intitle:Naked+intitle:Lunch+inauthor:burroughs&as_brr=0&ei=aYUiS83kBoTmlASHldnICw&cd=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false
The 1966 obscenity trial in Boston was a watershed moment. It is foremost in a rather large group of banned books released from the hysteria of those that banned them.
Burrough's insight into human nature, society and culture was acute. The way he chose to describe what he saw makes it a work of art not soon to be excelled in audacity, depth and with an understanding that is a coldly, fundamentally accurate description of things the way they are. .
You can read them here on google's banned book emporium.
books.google.com/googlebooks/banned/