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Thanksgiving: William S. Burroughs. - 11/23/2006 9:28:47 AM

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Thanksgiving: William S. Burroughs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMcIrYZ4R7Y

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RE: Thanksgiving: William S. Burroughs. - 11/23/2006 9:38:34 AM

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Would one classify Burroughs as one that saw the glass as half-empty?

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RE: Thanksgiving: William S. Burroughs. - 11/23/2006 9:40:44 AM

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Do you need your Art spoonfed to you too?

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RE: Thanksgiving: William S. Burroughs. - 11/23/2006 9:54:59 AM

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i couldn't hear it well, but he certainly seemed angry and upset. Maybe i misunderstood.

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RE: Thanksgiving: William S. Burroughs. - 11/23/2006 10:12:38 AM

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Also from Burroughs, shortly before he died in 1997:

"Love.... what is it? Most natural painkiller that there is. Love."

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RE: Thanksgiving: William S. Burroughs. - 11/23/2006 10:22:22 AM

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Relax people...its only Art.

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RE: Thanksgiving: William S. Burroughs. - 11/23/2006 12:25:49 PM

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For John Dillinger in the hopes that he is still alive...

Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.

Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until
the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.
For nigger-killin' lawmen,
feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter,
evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for
Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the
war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind the
own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the
memories-- all right let's see
your arms!

You always were a headache and
you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams.

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Brilliant! Burroughs was a highly original genius without compare. He was our best American author.

Personally, I'd say it's impossible to understand the modern world without also appreciating Burroughs' satirical commentary.

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