Word Virus
The William Burroughs Reader
Fourth Estate, London 2010
"When gangsters write the laws...ethics become fugitives, sanity is branded madness, and the artist's only option is total resistance."
"...he instructed readers in the art of deprogramming."
"...in his fiction, though everyone is complicit, everyone is also responsible, for everyone is capable of resistance. There are no victims, just accomplices; the mark collaborates with his exploiter in his own demise."
"Burroughs claimed to belong to only one group, the 'Shakespeare squadron'; in the historical impasse in which he lived, language was his only weapon."
-from the introduction by Ann Douglas
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