![]() ![]() ![]() “Novels that invite you inside the minds of dangerous obsessives, unaware of their own toxic natures, always leave me very unsettled when done well. “No, no,” screams the teenager.” - Books editor Claire Armitstead ![]() “In the 1966 trial that cleared the book of obscenity, Gore Vidal argued: “Just as Hieronymus Bosch set down the most diabolical and blood-curdling details with a delicacy of line and a Puckish humor which left one with a sense of the mansions of horror attendant upon Hell, so, too, does Burroughs leave you with an intimate, detailed vision of what Hell might be like, a Hell which may be waiting as the culmination, the final product, of the scientific revolution.” Yes, yes, the adult me assents. I still remember the waves of nausea provoked by the the molestation of boys in Hassan’s Rumpus Room: “‘No, no!’ screams the boy. “I can’t remember how I came into possession of a copy of Naked Lunch in my teens but it so horrified me that it’s the only book I have actually, physically destroyed. ![]()
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