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“- And do you know what the Americans and the Russians make their atoms with? They make them with the microbes of god.
- You are raving, Mr Artaud. You are mad.
- I am not raving. I am not mad. I'm telling you that microbes have been reinvented in order to impose a new idea of god.”
― Watchfiends and Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period
- You are raving, Mr Artaud. You are mad.
- I am not raving. I am not mad. I'm telling you that microbes have been reinvented in order to impose a new idea of god.”
― Watchfiends and Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period
“This planet is a penal colony and nobody is allowed to leave.”
― The Place of Dead Roads
― The Place of Dead Roads
“England is like some stricken beast too stupid to know it is dead. Ingloriously foundering in its own waste products, the backlash and bad karma of empire.”
― The Western Lands
― The Western Lands
“I wish to declare us the curators of our own psyches.”
― Poems From the Madhouse
― Poems From the Madhouse
“I could have been a successful bank robber, gangster, business executive, psychoanalyst, drug trafficker, explorer, bullfighter, but the conjecture of circumstances was never there. Over the years I begin to doubt if my time will ever come. It will come, or it will not come. There is no use trying to force it. Attempts to break through have led to curbs, near disasters, warnings. I cultivate an alert passivity, as though watching an opponent for the slightest sign of weakness.”
― Interzone
― Interzone
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