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Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.

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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
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Naked
Rabelais
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Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
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I felt free and therefore I was free.
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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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