Velvet Revolution; Naked Lunch

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Laurence Horn wrote:

> So that's three bands from the same novel, and counting.  If anyone wants
> to look for more, the entire novel can be found at
> http://www.bigtable.com/library/naked_lunch/1.html
>
> larry
>
> P.S.  Another band, Soft Machine, was named for another Burroughs novel.

And an entire genre, heavy metal, may owe its name to a character in
another Burroughs novel.

Fred R. Shapiro                             Coeditor (with Jane Garry)
Associate Librarian for Public Services     TRIAL AND ERROR: AN OXFORD
  and Lecturer in Legal Research            ANTHOLOGY OF LEGAL STORIES
Yale Law School                             Oxford University Press, 1998
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