The Naked Lunch

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Naked Lunch is a short story with a lot of passion. Is the story of a young couple that is having a date, a while after breaking up. There is nothing exceptional about Lucy and Vernon, they are not part of any dramatic plot were a villain rip off their happy ending and now they are trying to get they lives back on track. Vernon and Lucy can be anyone of us getting together with someone important we haven’t see in awhile. Lucy thinks she is over him, she wants to be over him, over their relationship and I think that’s is kind of the reason she becomes a vegetarian, maybe eating meat was a reminder of him, and when she decided to stop was the moment I think she decided to forget about him. On the other hand, Vernon doesn’t seem like he wants

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