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4.0 out of 5 stars
Burroughs eats sacred cows for lunch. Again.,
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This review is from: Roosevelt After Inauguration (Paperback)
Burroughs got used to being a black sheep early in his life, one gets the feeling. So he's willing to throw rocks at anyone. Certainly, an author whose main readership must have been well on the left had a lot of balls to go and rip the skin off that most untouchable of liberal sacred cows, Franklin Roosevelt.In this book of short essays, Burroughs demonstrates not only his scathing gift for wild satire, but also his striking intelligence and insight. His essay SECTS AND DEATH begins with the incisive proposal that the purpose of art is to show us "what we know and do not know that we know." He sells this idea fairly convincingly in about two paragraphs, and those goes on to the main target of the piece, the Church and other cults, whose mission (he claims) is to prevent us from becoming aware of "what we know and do not know that we know." The title piece is an hilarious and deeply offensive recounting of how FDR filled the government with typical Burroughs fantasy-characters, the most frightening kind of human dregs. (If you ever wondered where Hunter S. Thompson came from, this piece ought to convince you that he is Burroughs literary off-spring.) In between, he zips off a little reminisence about when he decided he did NOT want to be president (before birth)... It is Burroughs at his best: sober, coherent, and still utterly untamable. Needless to say, this stuff is not for the faint of heart.
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Roosevelt After Inauguration by William Burroughs (Paperback - June 1979)
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