
Naked Lunch
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- Year:
- 1991
- 115 min
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Exterminator.
Mm-hmm.
You want I should spit right in your face?
You want, hmm?
You want? You want?
I ran out.
You ran out?
Oh, that's nice.
You ran out.
It's impossible you run out!
What'd you do, eat the stuff?
The Chink shortchanged me.
No "glot." Come "Fliday."
It's funny.
It's actual very funny what you just said.
Ran out.
They can either paint it, or draw it, or write
it down and then pass it on to somebody.
They read what you're saying,
and then they reexperience.
That's the only connection
you have with that, man.
So you can't rewrite...
'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie...
and you betray your own thoughts.
To rethink the flow and the rhythm
and the tumbling out of the words...
is a betrayal.
And it's a sin, Martin.
It's a sin.
I don't accept your, uh...
Catholic interpretation
of my compulsive, uh...
necessity to rewrite
every single word at least 1 00 times.
Guilt is -Thanks.
Guilt is the key, not sin.
Guilt re not writing
the best that I can.
Guilt re not, uh, considering everything
Balancing everything.
Well, how about guilt
re censoring your best thoughts?
Your most honest,
primitive, real thoughts...
because that's what your laborious
rewriting amounts to, Martin.
Is rewriting really censorship, Bill?
Because I'm completely fucked if it is.
Exterminate all rational thought.
That is the conclusion I have come to.
What is the man talking about?
I'm being serious.
So is he.
So how is the extermination business
going there, Bill?
Somebody's stealing my roach powder.
Somebody's got it in for me.
Hmm. Well, Bill,
maybe you should take it as a sign.
Maybe you ought to try your hand
at writing pornography.
Yeah, a novel a week at 120 bucks.
It's serious money.
I can connect you with the guy.
We're thinking of
collaborating on one ourselves.
I gave up writing when I was 1 0.
- Too dangerous.
- Only if someone reads what you write.
So far we haven't had that problem.
I've found my profession.
I'm an exterminator.
Of course, Bill. That's just
what the world needs...
- ...more literate exterminators.
- Give me a cigarette.
Of course, then, you know...
you're gonna have trouble
if you can't keep track of your roach powder.
Wait a minute.
Do you boys know something about this?
We don't exactly know anything.
No, but we suspect
it's a domestic problem.
- My God, what are you doing?
- You weren't supposed to see this.
Well, now that I'm seeing it, what is it?
I'm shooting up your bug powder.
You might like to try it yourself.
Or you might not.
I ran out in the middle of a job.
You gotta stop using the stuff,Joan.
They ration it out like snakebite serum.
Well,just do what everybody else does -
cut it with baby laxative.
The roaches will
shit themselves to death.
It's the best job I ever had.
If I run out again, I'm finished.
Hmm.
It's, um -
It's a very literary high.
Very literary.
Is that why Hank and Martin
know all about it?
No, we just, uh -
We all just tried it together-
spur of the moment thing.
They didn't like it, I did.
What do you mean,
it's a literary high?
It's a Kafka high.
You feel like a bug.
Try some.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know.
- I think our metabolisms are very different.
- Whose?
Yours and Kafka's?
I thought you were finished
I thought I was, too,
but I guess I'm not.
Personally...
I prefer a pyrethrum job to a fluoride.
With the pyrethrum...
you kill the roaches right there
in front of God and the client...
whereas this starch and fluoride-
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