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offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-12 18:46 [#00439247]
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A Thanksgiving Prayer
by William S. Burroughs

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.


IF you get a chance, grab the MP3 or whatver of this....

Bill....I love ya mate...RIP...


 

offline BILE from São Paulo (Brazil) on 2002-11-12 18:50 [#00439256]
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yawn.


 

offline BILE from São Paulo (Brazil) on 2002-11-12 18:50 [#00439257]
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ack, wrong topic

now i seem even more like an ass than before


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2002-11-12 18:52 [#00439258]
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who is he (Burroughs)?


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-12 18:59 [#00439265]
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Phresh...Do a google on him...

Possibly one of the greatest writers of the 20th
century....v. surpised you haven't heard of him....(altho,
to be honest, I can't imagine many schools would add him to
their reading list....:)...



 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-12 19:00 [#00439267]
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http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Literature/Authors/B... ....

All you need to know...


 

offline b0nk from 1969 in the sunshine (United States) on 2002-11-12 19:03 [#00439274]
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i like Jack Kerouac better, he looked upto burroughs though
(if u read 'on the road' old bull lee is burroughs)


 

offline Phresch from fucking Trondheim (Norway) on 2002-11-12 19:05 [#00439278]
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have heard the name, but i haven't read any of his works.
thanx for the link!


 

offline qrter from the future, and it works (Netherlands, The) on 2002-11-12 19:11 [#00439289]
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nice, Jand.



 

offline fleetmouse from Horny for Truth on 2002-11-12 19:15 [#00439294]
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I have the e-text of Naked Lunch if anyone's interested.
It's not like he needs the money. I mean, being dead and
all.


 

offline jand from Braintree (United Kingdom) on 2002-11-12 19:31 [#00439302]
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check out Textz.com... got a number of his work on
there...(2nd page...use the next button to get to it...)..

it's got Junky, Naked Lunch etc....

alongwith tons of other great great works by most of the
best thinkers/writers of the last 200yrs....

Check out GUY DEBORD if you fancy some hardcore thinking -
my personal hero....(yet another dead hero...:(...


 

offline BILE from São Paulo (Brazil) on 2002-11-12 19:48 [#00439323]
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Nelson Muntz on the Simpsons, referring to having just seen
Naked Lunch (the movie):

"I can think of at least two things wrong with that
name."


 


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