“Naked Lunch”
You were warned.
:)
Naked Lunch. And you read that? I picked up a copy once myself and found it mostly unreadable. William S Burroughs had to be about the weirdest of the queer junkie beatniks, right up there with Allen Ginsberg.
I suspect that Burroughs may have influenced Hunter S Thompson:
http://www.burroughs100.com/features/when-hunter-s-thompson-visited-william-s-burroughs