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JF and Phil head for Interzone in an attempt to solve the enigma of Naked Lunch, David Cronenberg's 1991 screen adaptation of William S. Burroughs' infamous 1959 novel. A treatise on addiction, a diagnosis of modern ills, a lucid portrait of the artist as cosmic transgressor, and like the book, "a frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork," Naked Lunch is here framed in the light Cronenberg's recent speech making the case for the crime of art.

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REFERENCES

David Foster Wallace, "Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way," from Girl With Curious Hair
\nGilles Deleuze and F\xe9lix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, and "How Do You Make Yourself a Body Without Organs?" in A Thousand Plateaus
\nDavid Cronenberg (writer-director), Naked Lunch (the film)
\nWilliam Burroughs, Naked Lunch (the novel)
\nThomas De Quincey, Confessions of an Opium-Eater
\nDale Pendell, Pharmako/Poeia: Power Plants, Poisons and Herbcraft
\n"David Cronenberg: I would like to make the case for the crime of art," Globe and Mail June 22 2018
\nJF Martel, Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice
\nPhil Ford, Dig: Sound and Music in Hip Culture
\nDerek Bailey (director), On the Edge: Improvisation in Music
\nPhil Ford, "Good Prose is Written By People Who Are Not Frightened"
\nGeroge Orwell, "Inside the Whale"