William S. Burroughs: “Gentle Reader, The Word will leap on you with leopard man iron claws, it will cut off fingers and toes like an opportunity land crab, it will coil round your thighs like a bushmaster and inject a shot glass of rancid ectoplasm.
Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs shot and killed his wife, Joan Vollmer, in He was not charged with murder as the event stemmed from a drunken evening where the couple was playing a game of "William Tell.