What is meant by the title of William Burroughs’s novel Naked Lunch (1959)?

The title to the drug-induced stream-of-consciousness narrative Naked Lunch means a “frozen moment when everyone sees what is on the end of every fork” and is repulsed by it.

The title was suggested to the author William Burroughs by Jack Kerouac.

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