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mailing list archive - EJ & Burroughs (no angry old men)

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From: "Richard Brem" <e-ensign@thing.net>
To: <juenger-list@juenger.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:20 PM
Subject: [Juenger-list] EJ & Burroughs (no angry old men)


> I've noticed that, unlike in the last two years,  no-one on the list
> commemorated Juenger's 'Todestag' on 17 February 1998. I like to do it, a
> bit belated, with the 'Last Words' of William S. Burroughs, written just
one
> day before his death on 1 August 1997. Burroughs kept a diary until
> his death, whereas Juenger seems to have kept to himself -- very little is
> known about his last one or two years.
>
> The following quote is taken from: 'Last Words: The Final Journals of
> William S. Burroughs' (it's actually the last entry Burroughs wrote):
> ----------------------------------------------
> Thinking is not enough.
>
> Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience -- any fucking
> thing. No Holy Grail, no Final Satori, no final solution. Just conflict.
>
> Only thing can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski,
> Spooner and Calico. Pure love.
> What I feel for my cats present and past.
>
> Love? What is It?
> Most natural painkiller what there is.
>
> LOVE.
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>
>
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