The place of dead roads

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• hoers · Jun 7, 2015 · Recommends

  …Escher, Bach - Bulgakov - Master and Margherita - Melville - Moby Dick - Joyce - Ulysses - Everything by Baudrillard (esp. 'Agony of Power') - Everything by William Burroughs (The ticket that exploded, Place of dead roads, Discipline of DE) Not that crazy to grasp, but still amazing: - Everything by Egon Friedell (mostly Historical, unbelievably dense and awesome) - Chatwin - Songlines - Ludwig Marcuse - Philosophy…

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• mirimir · Mar 30, 2020 · Recommends

  I'm an old man now, so I'm especially interested in books about getting complete with life. I'm also into amusing and distracting. Top on my list are William S. Burroughs' last trilogy (especially Place of Dead Roads and The Western Lands) and Matthew Stover's Caine series (especially Caine Black Knife and Caine's Law). Burroughs published that trilogy when he was about my age, and there's some amazing stuff about…

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• mirimir · Dec 11, 2015 · Mentions

  …competition and any rules were made to be broken. All criminals think that way. > It is related that Cherry Nose Gio, rescued from drowning, spit in the lifeguard's face: "Crumb! Worka fora living.” The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs

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• mirimir · Mar 13, 2017 · Mentions

  …more convincing than real pictures because you can set them up to look real. Understand this: All pictures are faked. As soon as you have the concept of a picture there is no limit to falsification. The Place of Dead Roads by William S. Burroughs (1983) https://books.google.de/books?id=VZLqAQAAQBAJ

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