Add to that-both The Wild Boys and Naked Lunch were considered at one poin to be part of Nova3 makes defining/containing things even more fragmented and confusing. Many of the novels in the Nova3 were REVISED and some revised again, so knowing what version of the cut-up novel is part of the Nova3 becomes, within the overall word horde, a bit dicey. The novels that are NOW generally considered to be part of the trilogy were writen in an order that is different than the order they were eventually published. One of the other difficulties with the 'Nova Trilogy' is the VERY concept of these 3 books being an actual trilogy, or defining WHAT exactly the Nova3 was. They were both written to flickerclusterf#&% with the reader (me). They aren't meant to be understood as much as they are intended to be experienced. I only bring them together, briefly, HERE to compare because, for me (reader), they hit me (reader) hard with their experimentalism and dark, almost ugly, UGLY, opacity. They are two different beasts in scale, complexity, method, etc. Now, I'm not even REALLY comparing the Nova Trilogy to Finnegans Wake. The books (all 3) are so damn knotty and naughty. At 3:00, now 4, am it is hard to really, REALLY, get to the meat and idahosoftbones of it all. Burroughs, Nova Express Writing about the Nova Trilogy is frustrating. 'What scared you all into time? Into body? Into sh!t? I will tell you: 'the word.' - William S.
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