Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

(A simopath – the technical name for this disorder escapes me – is a citizen convinced he is an ape or other simian. It is a disorder peculiar to the army, and discharge cures it.)

Junk is a pain-killer, it also kills the pain and pleasure implicit in awareness.

‘If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.

The doctor was also a concert violinist, a mathematician, a chess master, and a Doctor of International Jurisprudence with license to practice in the lavatories of the Hague.

‘How in the fuck should I know? I’m a scientist. A pure scientist. Just get them outa here. I don’t hafta look at them is all. They constitute an albatross.’

I am a ghost wanting what every ghost wants – a body – after the Long Time moving through odorless alleys of space where no life is only the colorless no smell of death.…

Homosexuality is a political crime in a matriarchy. No society tolerates overt rejection of its basic tenets.

You know how old people lose all shame about eating, and it makes you puke to watch them?

A functioning police state needs no police.