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William S. Burroughs · 1959
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Addiction, control, and flesh enact a total system where desire and power are indistinguishable from disease.
erotic-as-power
The actual excitement is not primarily sexual, and the climax is the separation when the recharge is completed.
NLRT-RC-047Satyr catches the boy from in front and whirls him around. White sperm ejaculates into the green water and floats lazily around the twisting bodies.
NLRT-RC-053obedience-and-authority
The President is required by custom to crawl across the garbage on his stomach and deliver the Permit of Residence to The Resident Governor.
NLRT-RC-113Citizens rushed from one bureau to another in a frenzied attempt to meet impossible deadlines. Documents issued in vanishing ink faded into old pawn tickets.
NLRT-RC-021They paw over his body probing his ass for contraband and examine it for evidence of sodomy.
NLRT-RC-106embodiment
The disease passes to the lymph glands of the groin, which swell and burst in suppurating fissures, drain for days, months, years.
NLRT-RC-033Illuminates
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