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William S. Burroughs

“America is not a young land. It is old and dirty and evil before the settlers, before the Indians. The evil is there waiting...But there is no drag like U.S. drag. You can't see it, you don't know where it comes from. Take one of those cocktail lounges at the end of a subdivision street--every block of houses has its own bar and drug store and market and liquor store. You walk in and it hits you. But where does it come from? Not the bartender, not the customers nor the cream colored plastic, nor the dim neon. Not even the tv.”

William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William S. Burroughs
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