At the end of his best-known novel, the dark and delirious Naked Lunch, Burroughs wrote: “The Word is divided into units which be all in one piece and should be so taken, but the pieces can be had in any order being tied up back and forth, in and out fore and aft like an innaresting sex arrangement.” This aberrant perspective is perhaps the reason why his words were widely adopted. He inspired the name of the band Steely Dan, which is named after a dildo in Naked Lunch, while the term “heavy metal” first appeared in print in Burroughs's 1962 novel The Soft Machine.