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Last Words

by William S. Burroughs · 2010

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Towards the end of his life Burroughs was writing only in his journals. These are the final thoughts of one of the world's most extraordinary writers, who died in 1997, after a lifetime of notoriety.

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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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