I feel as though Burroughs wants to desensitize his audience by using a constant stream of vulgar descriptions and very surprising sexual encounters; almost as though he wants us to not be distracted by the sexual aspects of the so-called story. The characters are being taught to "maintain a state of total alertness during sexual excitement" (75); and maybe he's trying to the same to us. He wants the sex and the weirdness of the provocativeness to not surprise us, he wants us to accept it.
Maybe...he wants us to be turned on by it...it seems sick, but the ideas in this book are pretty sick.
Or maybe he wants us to be able to move beyond it. What if sex is the only thing keeping us in our bodies?
ReplyDeleteThat would be interesting. Would it be because it feels so good and the only way to feel that is through a physical orgasm?...but then why is there only men in the story? Wouldn't it be the same for a woman?
ReplyDeleteAnd, is the 'us' our soul?