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William S. Burroughs: Liberalism with a Gun

Art of Darkness

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Burrows and the Cut Up Technique

Time at the beat hotel was dominated by occult experiments, mirror gazing, syging, trance and telepathy. It was from this febrile atmosphere that the famous cut up technique emerged. And i do want to talk about my favourite set of books by him, which came very late, actually. I think burrows was obsessed with his notion of controlit not only governmental control, but a sort of a pk di, a p k dick kind of black iron prison level of control. Soi following along on the wickie as we go at saying burros.

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