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William Burroughs était à la fois vieux et jeune. Un peu shérif, un peu privé. Cent pour cent écrivain. Il tenait son armoire à pharmacie sous clef, mais si on avait mal quelque part, il n’hésitait pas à l’ouvrir. Il n’aimait pas voir souffrir ceux qu’il aimait. Si vous étiez cloué au lit, il vous nourrissait. Il se présentait à votre porte avec un
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I managed to keep up my habits performing cut-rate abortions in subway toilets.
William Burroughs • Naked Lunch: The Restored Text

‘If all pleasure is relief from tension, junk affords relief from the whole life process, in disconnecting the hypothalamus, which is the center of psychic energy and libido.
William Burroughs • Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
His misshapen body, that gray mop of abundant hair, the yellow nails of his pudgy fingers, the bags under his lusterless eyes, were only intelligible if regarded as the waste products eliminated from his intrinsic self by the same forces of perfection which purified and chiseled his verse. He was his own cancellation.