==  a little literary critisim (snips) == 

  
 # Harris, Oliver (2003) William Burroughs and the Secret of Fascination. Southern Illinois University Press. ISBN 0809324849. PP. 29-30 "... the defining instance occurs in a short story, written at the same time as Wild Boys, entitled Ali's Smile. Here the smile is tied to homosexual desire and compulsory mimesis, so that fascination names a perverse pleasure of pleasurable perversity: Ali loses control of his own body by becoming [snip]..." Talk on previous pages about the literary or psych. aspects of smiles; mentions Wild Boys 
 # Eric Mottram Eric Mottram (1977). William Burroughs: the algebra of need. Published by M. Boyars, Original from the University of Michigan. ISBN 0714525626 "Ali's Smile" uses the colonial official and native servant formula for the next stage in the extermination collection. Deep in 'Ye Olde Marl Hole Tavern'..." 
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