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offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-25 05:39 [#01674430]
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I was just browsing through a torrent site, when I came
upon a quote from Kerouac, which I believe furnished the
title of a Burroughs' novel - Kerouac calls heroin, 'the
naked lunch that lies at the end of every cold spoon.'

Anyone know where other book titles come from?

I know 'A Scanner Darkly' by PKD comes from the writings of
St Paul - 'through a glass darkly' - meaning that our
visions are obscured until the end of time.


 

offline redrum from the allman brothers band (Ireland) on 2005-07-25 05:41 [#01674433]
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Slightly relevent is the fact that the band Steely Dan took
their name from a dildo in Burroughs' Naked Lunch. Can't
provide any insight on book titles off-hand though..


 

offline marlowe from Antarctica on 2005-07-25 05:47 [#01674439]
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Quite relevent and pretty interesting! There's no reason why
not to include album titles / band names here.


 

offline w M w from London (United Kingdom) on 2005-07-25 05:54 [#01674449]
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I had a book called biology that was about biology. It
tasted like mints.


 

offline thatne from United States on 2005-07-25 08:54 [#01674637]
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Behold a Pale Horse by William Milton Cooper - The
Revelation of Saint John the Divine, from the Holy Bible

Go Ask Alice - "White Rabbit" by the Jefferson Airplane

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner - William
Shakespeare's MacBeth

Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins -
Arthur Rimbaud's "Une Saison en Enfer"


 

offline thatne from United States on 2005-07-25 08:57 [#01674643]
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Soul on Ice by Eldridge Cleaver - puns on his earlier
memoir, Soul on Fire


 

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