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* AntiHero: Our first introduction to Lee is repaying a passerby who saved him from pursuing police -- he sneeringly decides the man's a homosexual and sets him up to buy fake weed.

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* AntiHero: Our first introduction to Lee is repaying a passerby who saved him from pursuing police -- he sneeringly decides the man's a homosexual and sets him up to buy fake weed. Later, he casually dismisses his son crying at him for eating his sugar skull after a bout of heroin-induced hunger before going back into a heroin stupor.



-->"You know the experiment with rats where they are subject to this electric shock and dropped in cold water if they so much as move at a female. So they all become fruit rats and that's the way it is with the etiology. And shall such a rat squeak out, '[[FunetikAccent I'm queah and I luuuuuuuuve it']] or 'Who cut yours off, you two-holed freak?' 'twere a square rat so to squeak."

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-->"You know the experiment with rats where they are subject to this electric shock and dropped in cold water if they so much as move at a female. So they all become fruit rats and that's the way it is with the etiology. And shall such a rat squeak out, '[[FunetikAccent '[[FunetikAksent I'm queah and I luuuuuuuuve it']] or 'Who cut yours off, you two-holed freak?' 'twere a square rat so to squeak."



* ContemplateOurNavels: Behind all the filth and horror, Burroughs is crying.

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* ContemplateOurNavels: Behind all the filth and horror, Burroughs is crying. Much of the novel was a reaction to America in TheFifties, especially its right-wing political correctness and its endorsement of the death penalty while ignoring drug addicts and other disadvantaged.
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-->"You know the experiment with rats where they are subject to this electric shock and dropped in cold water if they so much as move at a female. So they all become fruit rats and that's the way it is with the etiology. And shall such a rat squeak out, '[[FunetikAccent I'm queah and I luuuuuuuuve it']] or 'who cut yours off, you two-holed freak?'"

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-->"You know the experiment with rats where they are subject to this electric shock and dropped in cold water if they so much as move at a female. So they all become fruit rats and that's the way it is with the etiology. And shall such a rat squeak out, '[[FunetikAccent I'm queah and I luuuuuuuuve it']] or 'who 'Who cut yours off, you two-holed freak?'" freak?' 'twere a square rat so to squeak."

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