… people are not bribed to shut up about what they know. They are bribed not to find things out.
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William S. Burroughs.
The Place of Dead Roads.
Stories. Paul Bowles.
Our lady of flowers. Jean Genet.
A William Burroughs Reader.
Invisible Spectator.
He has no shame. He does what he pleases with all the young boys, and the men too, and gives them a shilling so they won’t tell about it. But they talk. Of course they talk. Every man for twenty miles up and down the coast knows about it. And the women too, they know about it.” There was a silence.
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Pages from Cold Point
Paul Bowles.
During this period of his life, Burroughs was seeking a physical utopia, a place where he could live and act as he wanted with interference from neither official state authority nor unofficial moral authority. In fact, he wanted to live in a place where he was out of place and where consequently he would be free.
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Colonial Affairs: Bowles, Burroughs and Chester write Tangier.
Greg Mullins.
A Happy Death. Albert Camus.
Goodbye to Berlin - Christopher Isherwood by johnrobertshepherd on Flickr.
Crime and Punishment. Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
1953 _ Signet 1002 _ Stanley Meltzoff by uk vintage on Flickr.
Well the city exterminating people were around and left some white powder draws roaches the way whiskey will draw a priest.”
“They are a cheap outfit Mrs Murphy. What they left was fluoride. The roaches build up a tolerance and become addicted. They can be dangerous if the fluoride is suddenly withdrawn.. —
“They are a cheap outfit Mrs Murphy. What they left was fluoride. The roaches build up a tolerance and become addicted. They can be dangerous if the fluoride is suddenly withdrawn.. —
EXTERMINATOR!
William S Burroughs.
On arrival in London from Tangier, Orton had said to Halliwell : ” The party’s over.” Halliwell, looking around the London streets, had said, ” How dead everyone looks.
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Tangier : City of the Dream.
Iain Finlayson.
Notes from Underground/The Double. Fyodor Dostoyevsky.
Journey to the East. Hermann Hesse.
