I am not innarested in your horrible disease.

In Burroughs’s novel "Naked Lunch" (1959), a character expresses disgust at people who describe their illnesses in graphic detail, using the deliberately misspelled word “innarested” to mock or dismiss the speaker’s expectation of sympathy.

The line is a blunt, contemptuous refusal to engage with someone else’s medical complaints; the odd spelling heightens the character’s sneering tone and signals a stylized voice rather than a neutral statement by the author.

“Sick people disgust me already. When some citizen start telling me about his cancer of the prostate or his rotting septum make with that purulent discharge I tell him: ‘You think I am innarested to hear about your horrible old condition? I am not innarested at all.’”

“I am not innarested in your horrible disease.”