HomophobiaBurroughs suggests someone can be 'made' homosexual by psychological tricks. We now know it is purely genetic, but this attitude reenforced the idea that it was a psychological disorder.
You can make a square heterosex citizen queer with this angle . . . that is, reinforce and second his rejection of normally latent homosexual trends -- at the same time depriving him of cunt and subjecting him to homosex stimulation.
Misinterpretation.WSB with this writing is bringing to the heterosex community a better understanding of homo brotheres. We are all as 1 when sitting at the table of the Naked Lunch.
Burroughs constantly falsely associates homosexuality with pedophilia. In this passage he portrays the anal rape of a young boy (in positive terms):
"Stand up and turn around," he orders in telepathic pictographs. He ties the boy's hands behind him with a red silk cord. "Tonight we make it all the way."
"No, no!" screams the boy.
"Yes. Yes."
The boy rape is symbolic of ur all loss of our inner cents as we encounter the junk in adulthood. It is critique of consumersm forced on children by the capitalism. The capitalism takes all our cents away. WSB new this all the way in 1959, long before Marx!
He then goes on to describe a violent sexual encounter between two young Arab boys. A parenthetical remark makes it clear that the author (Burroughs) has experience with the cock of Arab boys. He is writing what he knows. (You still deny he's a pedophile?!?)
The other sighs deeply as Ali slides his cock in. The mouths grind together smearing blood. Sharp musty odor of penetrated rectum. Nimun drive in like a wedge, force jissom out the other cock in long hot spurts. (The author has observed that Arab cocks tend to be wide and wedge shaped.)
In the 50s talk, cock only meant rooster not the penis, and the jissom is a spicy sauce. Please read passage again. It is only Arab recipe.
RacismBurroughs often refers to blacks using the N-word. While this was common in the 1950s, it was also clearly a word used by racists. He seems to relish in referring to the way the American South dealt with unwanted African Americans.
Back through Lake Charles and the dead slot-machine country, south end of Texas, nigger-killing sheriffs look us over and check the car papers.
They burned that ol' nigger over in Cunt Lick. Nigger had the aftosa and it left him stone blind. . . . So this white girl down from Texarkana screeches out:
"Roy, that ol' nigger is looking at me so nasty. Land's sake I feel just dirty all over."
"Now, Sweet Thing, don't you fret yourself. Me an' the boys will burn him."
"Do it slow, Honey Face. Do it slow. He's give me a sick headache."
So they burned the nigger
Here he goes so far as to suggest African Americans are a form of animal, like a cow.
And he plunged into an anecdote about a nigra got the hydrophobia from a cow.
"So my pappy says to me: 'Finish up your chores, son, and let's go see the mad nigger. . . .' They had that nigger chained to the bed, and he was bawling like a cow. . . . I soon got enough of that ol' nigger."
Very Misinterpretation!Here is WSB reflecting the racist attitudes of the 50s as manner of saying they have bad! These passages are anti-racist!
Here is a passage which is promotes a disgusting stereotype about Jews.
The clerk looked at the card suspiciously: "You don't look like a one feed mast-fed Razor Back to me. . . . What you think about the Jeeeeews . . . ?"
"Well, Mr. Anker, you know yourself all a Jew wants to do is doodle a Christian girl. . . . One of these days we'll cut the rest of it off."
This passage does not occur in original Naked Lunch. There are false editions put out by Zionists and this hoax passge is edded by Zionists to gain sympathy.
You must read real Naked Lunch!Some of the worst passages are very Islamophobic. Here Burroughs suggests Mohammed (pbuh) did not even exist!
Mohammed? Are you kidding? He was dreamed up by the Mecca Chamber of Commerce. An Egyptian ad man on the skids from the sauce write the continuity.
Here he promotes conspiratorial thinking about Islam.
The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.
Then he slurs Arabs as ignorant.
Nice folks, these Arabs . . . Nice ignorant folk.
In context of Lunch all is more clerly. Islam Inc. is not religion of Islam, but secret Benway corporate project. Please reed again.
I wish I could be finished with this section already. It's so sickening. But there are two more examples I felt compelled to include.
This one is Islamophobic with a dash of racism against the Chinese on the side.
A funeral passes through the market. Black coffin -- Arabic inscriptions in filigreed silver -- carried by four pallbearers. Procession of mourners singing the funeral song . . . Clem and Jody fall in beside them carrying coffin, the corpse of a hog bursts out of it. . . . The hog is dressed in a djellaba, a keif pipe juts from its mouth, one hoof holds a packet of feelthy pictures, a mezuzzoth hangs about its neck. . . . Inscribed on the coffin: "This was the noblest Arab of them all."
They sing hideous parody of the funeral song in false Arabic. Jody can do a fake Chinese spiel that'll just kill you -- like a hysterical ventriloquist's dummy. In fact, he precipitated an anti-foreign riot in Shanghai that claimed 3,000 casualties.
"Stand up, Gertie, and show respect for the local gooks."
"I suppose one should."
This one includion by u I find verrry strange. Reeding it makes clear it
anti-racist. Says very clearly "
show respect for the local gooks." How reed you this as racist?
And finally there is racism mixed with homophobia.
When arrested for sodomy in Indonesia, Clem said to the examining magistrate:
"'Tain't as if it was being queer. After all they's only Gooks."
They appeared in Liberia dressed in black Stetsons and red galluses:
"So I shoot that old nigger and he flop on his side one leg up in the air just akicking."
"Yeah, but you ever burn a nigger?"
Clem and frend are villanous. Excerpt proves this. Not supporting racism and homophobia at all!
MisogynyFinally we come to the misogyny. Misogynistic words are scattered throughout the text. I'll start with two short examples.
You cheap Factualist bitch!
Cunts, pricks, fence straddlers, tonight I give you -- that international-known impressario of blue movies and short-wave TV, the one, the only, The Great Shlahstubitch!
These quotes combine misogynistic and homophobic slurs.
If your tits won't stop them bring up your cunts and confound these faggots.
Out of Context.In the context of the lunch, these are showing the strength and power of the female spirits.
Elegant fags and old cunts
Full quote is:
Elegant fags and old cunts, God damn it! We come to the right place.
Why you leave out the positive part? WSB is promoting support of homos and elderly females, not hate! Some of greatest leeders today are the homos and elderly femals, so just look how much rpogress comes by the Naked Lunch!
In this passage Burroughs describes the result of a father sending his son to a prostitute. At this point the misogyny turns quite violent.
"Well, son, did you get a piece of ass?"
"Yeah. This gash comes to the door, and I say I want a piece of ass and lay the double sawski on her. We go up to her trap, and she remove the dry goods. So I switch my blade and cut a big hunk off her ass, she raise a beef like I am reduce to pull off one shoe and beat her brains out. Then I hump her for kicks."
The intention of passage is to show enherent problem of communication (passing of messages). "Piece of ass" was meant to be sexual congress, but boy has misunderstanding, much like your misundersting of the Lunch.
The following passage is an example that combines condemnation of matriarchy with misinformation about homosexuality. To top it off it ends with an Islamophobic slur.
Remember the Bismarck Achipelago. No overt homosexuality. A functioning police state needs no police. Homosexuality does not occur to anyone as conceivable behavior. . . . Homosexuality is a political crime in a matriarchy. No society tolerates overt rejection of its basic tenets. We aren't a matriarchy here, Insh'allah.
Passage examins how society can function without police, with acceptance of basic tennants of society by all. When occurs, all well be 1. There is no compulsion in the Naked Lunch.
As I am sad u were having such hate, have I also gladness that I can help bring you to true understanding of the Naked Lunch. I am hoping you will open ur eyes to the truth and let go of hatred.