布洛斯的毒品實驗主要在追求布萊剋(William Blake)的教誨:「如果眾妙之門豁然,萬物還得本性:即是無窮無限。」(If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.)讀者可用此句比較《裸體午餐》(◎Naked Lunch◎)書名之義:在凍結的瞬間,人人可見叉子的盡頭實為赤裸的肉。換言之,感官之門(doors of perception)滌清瞭,盡管永恆有如叉子盡頭的真相一般醜陋。