In his latest book, Burroughs pushes into new territory, once again committing the unspeakable crime of questioning the reality structure. Dreams, always a rich source of imagery in Burroughs' works, here become a direct and powerful force. My Education, direct, honest, humorous and subversive, is a truly original work.
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I haunted the city of your dreams, invisible and insistent as a fire of thorns in the wind. —St. John Perse, Anabasis
The answer to any question will be revealed when you stop asking questions and wipe from your mind the concept of question.
It seems that we—James, Michael, Bill Rich, George—a few of us have indeed taken over the planet by default, occupying an empty space that no one else was able or willing to occupy. (查看原文)
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered, and I fear I never will.
In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
Language is a virus from outer space.
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing.
Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.
How I hate those who are dedicated to producing conformit... (查看原文)
2 有用 egg roulette 2015-10-01 22:23:50
讲真，这是那类如果作者不是巨巨应该不会出版的书, too experimental
2 有用 egg roulette 2015-10-01 22:23:50
讲真，这是那类如果作者不是巨巨应该不会出版的书, too experimental