This is the closing to the Talking Asshole routine. A five part tour de force that has become the centerpiece of Naked Lunch and the definitive example of the rountine form. This piece has been examined forwards and backwards. The relationship to the discussion of jazz above is obvious. For Burroughs the great artists like a free jazz musicians explores new combinations and breaks the controlling influence of established and traditinal structures. Seeming discontinuities, negaive capability (think Keats’s late letters), Ginsberg hydrogen jukebox are all in play here and form the foundation for a new freedom in expression and art.