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