The material which was transformed into Naked Lunch from Burroughs's "Word Hoard," consisting of letters, journals, and other writings, contained sufficient additional matter to form the basis for the first trilogy, The Soft Machine (1961), The Ticket That Exploded (1962), and Nova Express (1964). For these books, however, Burroughs has further advanced the concept of a nontraditional narrative, incorporating the "cut-up" and "fold-in" methods which he.....
