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Naked Lumps?
William S. Burroughs intended to name his controversial scatological portrait of drug addiction "Naked Lust". Fellow Beat Generation writer Allen Ginsberg misread Burroughs' handwriting -- as "Naked Lunch" -- and the accidental title was kept.
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