--- Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
> I think they meant this in the same sense Genet did,
> that it was
> great theater. Susan Sontag wrote about this in
> "Fascinating
> Fascism" which is online here:
>
> http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/Sontag74a/
>
IIRC Burroughs said he wrote Naked Lunch in part to exorcise himself of his 'addiction to homosexuality,' and then Ginzberg made analogies to nazism's cult of the body etc. (This is from vague memories of reading transcriprs of the trial.)
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