Freak Flagged Dept.

Point of clarification. When talking about "just different enough", it might be easy to think I'm stumping for the kind of far-out creativity that is epitomized by everything fromNaked Lunch to bizarro fiction. Well, not really.

For one, let me takeNaked Lunchand William Burroughs as its own case, separate from the hordes of things it inspired. The more I look at that book and that author, the more I see them as lightning in a bottle — a unique set of circumstances that most people have learn...