Monday, May 15, 2006

Favorite Lines from "The Ticket That Exploded" III:

Ghost apes tear his insides apart.

(Page 88)

Note: The line above marks the beginning of one of the most brutally hallucinatory passages ever written, an extended example of Burroughs making language do things it was never meant to. Nothing in Surrealism equals it, nor does any piece of contemporary bizarro fiction I've read to date. This is only a teaser.

Sunday, May 14, 2006

Favorite Lines from "The Ticket That Exploded" II:

Your earth must be processed by the Biological Courts.

(Page 56)

Favorite Lines from "The Ticket That Expoded" II:

Your earth must be processed by the Biological Courts.

(Page 56)

Saturday, May 13, 2006

Favorite Lines from "The Ticket That Exploded" I:

Heavy metal addicts picketed the Rewrite Office, exploding in protest.

(Page 52)