Naked Lunch
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:45:03
You certainly were in rough shape
at the O'Leary party last night.

:45:06
Was I?
:45:11
You were very raw -
emotionally, I mean.

:45:15
You seemed to be in a lot of pain.
:45:18
Pain.
:45:21
I don't remember... pain.
:45:26
And, in fact, I don't remember
the O'Leary party.

:45:31
In fact, I don't remember you.
:45:35
Well, it was a very intense
performance in any case.

:45:39
My name's Cloquet.
:45:47
Yves Cloquet.
:45:51
Can I buy you breakfast?
:46:03
I've seen you around,
but I had no idea you were queer.

:46:09
Queer.
:46:10
I saw you arrive
with those three Interzone boys.

:46:14
What an entrance.
:46:16
You all looked very...
:46:18
familiar with each other.
:46:21
Queer.
:46:25
A curse.
Been in our family for generations.

:46:28
The Lees have always been perverts.
:46:32
I shall never forget
the unspeakable horror...

:46:36
that froze the lymph in my glands...
:46:40
when the baneful word seared
my reeling brain -

:46:44
I...
:46:46
was a homosexual.
:46:50
I thought of the painted,
simpering female impersonators...

:46:53
I had seen in a Baltimore nightclub.
:46:58
Could it be possible
I was one of those subhuman things?


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