Editing The Soft Machine (section)

==Title and structure==
The title ''The Soft Machine'' is a name for the [[human anatomy|human body]], and the main theme of the book (as explicitly written in an appendix added to the 1968, British edition) concerns how control mechanisms invade the body.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

The book is written in a style close to that of ''[[Naked Lunch]]'', employing third-person singular indirect recall, though now using the cut-up method.

After the main material follow three appendices in the British edition, the first explaining the title (as mentioned above) and two accounts of Burroughs' own drug abuse and treatment using [[apomorphine]]. Here Burroughs clearly states that he considers drug abuse a [[metabolic disease]] and writes about how he finally escaped it.