the Peloponnesian war was a war between Athens and Sparta in the 5th century BC. Thucydides was a general of the Athenian army and he set out to write an objective and thorough history of the 21-year war. itā€™s very dense and matter-of-fact and intentionally doesnā€™t have the kind of mythologizing and romantic aspects found in texts like the Iliad. itā€™s considered foundational to fields like military theory, philosophy of war, and international relations. Naked Lunch doesnā€™t really have a clear linear plot, but much of it focuses on an opioid addict named William Lee and his experiences in a dystopian surrealist city called ā€œInterzone.ā€ Burroughs wrote this for his friends while addicted to oxycodone and living in the Tangier International Zone, and was mainly compiled by fellow beats Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.
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