Altered States

[pasithea]

I had this thought yesterday that seemed somehow sublimely wrong but I can't really wrap my mind around it and get a good image of what it would be like, just that it's very very wrong somehow.

William S. Burroughs on E.

Comments

[postrodent.livejournal.com]

"I was full of expansive, benevolent feelings, and suddenly wanted to call on people I hadn't seen in months or even years, people I did not like and who did not like me." --WSB, "Junky".

More seriously, I wonder if he wouldn't be wracked with guilt and sorrow and horror. Men of his generation didn't really have outlets for that stuff, although he managed to make a few of his own; I think there's a nonzero possibility he'd just crack up and start sobbing like a baby.

[circuit-four.livejournal.com]

I don't even want to consider the possibility he thought about Joan. *cringe*

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

Burroughs' system would burn E away in an instant, or convert it into poison toad juice or something... he's just too caustic for it to withstand him.