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In William Burroughs' Interzone, you'll run into, among other things, "cunts, hard cocks, queers." Bugged? Get past it. Look around you: The same stuff's lying around on the Internet, maybe the closest-to-tangible take on what Burroughs had all figured out in his own junked up Net, the "interzone" - an imagined world where the laws of time and space and conventional human personality are suspended, where everything is both possible and permitted. That world in 1953 was the working title of what eventually became the novel Naked Lunch. What didn't make it into Lunch, most notably fifty-some pages dubbed "WORD," are what's in Interzone. Also included: short stories, routines, letters, notebook entries - the all of it, frankly illustrating the author's transformation from deadpan writer to radical visionary, albeit an hallucinatory one.
Interzone, by William Burroughs, US$11.00. Penguin USA: (800) 253 6476.
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