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It is said that the Beats respected improvisation, taking drugs first, and then coding when the body became hot and strange hallucinations appeared.
What they write is not a novel, but a "true" record of what they have seen and heard after superimposing the medicinal effect filter.
Let Cronenberg come to film and television, it is really a meeting of gold and jade.
Well, the metaphor of "Golden Wind and Jade Dew" really needs to be considered, those pains, desires, loss, visions, those beetles, centipedes, mouthparts, anus, mucus, uh uh uh, typical Cronenberg.
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In a very cult way, it visualizes the creative dilemma faced by writers and the process of creating through drugs. Those who have turned back and forth over and over again have become obsessed with talking through anus or erection once they are struck. The beetle typewriter, the insecticide powder, and the lingering urge to kill his wife.
It is enough to understand this step, and the rest do not need to be understood. Burroughs and Cronenberg have no intention of making you understand.
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At the beginning, the protagonist discusses writing with his two writer friends——
One of them insisted that the work should write down the author's most authentic perception and experience, and that revision is a departure from the original idea and a sinful lie; It is a sin to produce the best work; the protagonist advocates the eradication of all reason.
I like to revise. When revising the article, I can make corrections and even make trade-offs from a more objective and comprehensive standpoint. This is the first time I bury my head in writing, and I am unable to do so.
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America in the 1960s and 1970s was charming and ugly, and in the end, it was ugly.
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