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I like the idea of generalizing the narcotic thing by making it black meat addiction.
William S. Burroughs
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William S. Burroughs
Age: 83 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 5
Died: 1997
Died: August 11
Essayist
Novelist
Painter
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Science Fiction Writer
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St. Louis
Missouri
William Seward Burroughs II
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I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.
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The Planet drifts to random insect doom.
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