Naked Lunch

"Quite a severe lesion I think... of course without to see the Horoscope."

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.

Make a study strictly from metabolism: diet, use of drugs and alcohol, sex, etc.

as you can plainly see, the possibilities are endless like meandering paths in a great big beautiful garden

The case of a female agent who forgot her real identity and merged with her cover story

causal thinking never yields accurate description of metabolic process --limitations of existing language

The pleasure of morphine is in the viscera. You listen down into yourself after a shot. But C is electricity through the brain, and the C yen is of the brain alone, a need without body and without feeling.

Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

a manipulator and coordinator of symbol systems

He acted as if other men did not exist, conveying his restaurant and store orders to male personnel through a female intermediary.