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We're sitting at the tail end of the century of William Burroughs and Georges Bataille and The Story of O , a century in which literature would seem to have shed its last gratuitous prohibitions.
In contrast, the Burroughs Dictionary and The Dune Encyclopedia include many characters and places and are thus actually concordances or encyclopedias rather than true dictionaries.
The fact that Tarzan is really an English lord--Lord Greystoke, to be precise--was central to Burroughs' conception of his character.
Obituaries of the author of Naked Lunch highlight his importance as a countercultural role model, calling him "the non-conformist's non-conformist" (the Boston Globe ) who "inspired a who's who of pop culture" ( USA Today ). They dwell on the artists (Beats, punk rockers) who embraced Burroughs as a guru, and retell bizarre anecdotes from his life (he shot his wife accidentally, slept with little boys, and hawked his typewriter to buy heroin).
In the Wall Street Journal , Roger Kimball attacks the recently deceased William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg for their "pretentious, proselytizing pornography ...