“Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.” -W.S.B
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It begins with milk. And coins. Ends with guns. With Shatner singing Rocket Man to a room full of science fiction fans.Was that Karen Black?
“Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary.” -W.S.B
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Do you recall Teapot Dome? Magazines? Letters?
“Hustlers of the world, there is one Mark you cannot beat: the Mark Inside.” – W.S.B
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Contains disguised memoir and a skip or two. Makes me nostalgic for Vinyl which went MIA in a flood many years back.
“America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. The dream is a spontaneous happening [...]
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Sorry no pictures just words. And music. Nothing to be afraid of. Is it safe for work? Hell, no it’s Burroughs! I mean where do you work? City Lights?
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