SOURCE: Ahearn, Edward J. “The Sordid Sublime: Burroughs's Naked Lunch.” In Visionary Fictions: Apocalyptic Writing from Blake to the Modern Age, pp. 117-35. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
In the following essay, Ahearn places Burroughs in the tradition of apocalyptic writing that includes William Blake and Lautréamont.
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