![]() The book remains unpublished however, it led to the important invention of what Ginsberg was to call "routines," a parodic compositional method that would serve Burroughs in the compiling of "The Naked Lunch." With the further passage of time, Burroughs acquired his drug dependency, purchased a farm in Texas on which he attempted to grow marijuana for sale in New York City (the scheme failed) and moved to Mexico and Tangier, the latter providing the inspiration for Interzone, one of the settings of "The Naked Lunch."īurroughs' transgressiveness is genuine. ![]() Carr served only two years in prison for the crime, which was referred to in the newspapers as an "honor slaying."īurroughs and Kerouac used the incident as the basis for a collaborative novel, "And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks," writing alternate paragraphs as they proceeded. ![]() In 1944, Carr was charged with the murder of his roommate, David Kammerer, whom he stabbed with a Boy Scout knife when Kammerer made unwanted homosexual advances. ![]()
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