The Addict in the Street (1964)

New York City: Grove Press (book, non-fiction), 1964.
8.25" x 5.5" x 1.25", 288 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket.

The Addict in the Street by Jeremy Larner and Ralph Tefferteller, as published by Grove Press (New York City) in 1964. A collection of personal histories from multiple drug abusers, addicts.

A quote from Naked Lunch from which the title of this book is taken starts the book, at the page preceding the table of contents: "If you wish to alter or annihilate a pyramid of numbers in a serial relation, you alter or remove the bottom number. If we wish to annihilate the junk pyramid, we must start with the bottom of the pyramid: the Addict in the Street, and stop tilting quixotically for the "higher ups" so called, all of whom are immediately replaceable. The addict in the street who must have junk to live is the one irreplaceable factor in the junk equation. When there are no more addicts to buy junk there will be no junk traffic. As long as junk need exists, someone will service it."

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