{"id":6219,"date":"2013-02-05T12:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/?p=6219"},"modified":"2013-02-05T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T17:11:23","slug":"how-is-it-that-william-s-burroughs-is-nearly-a-hundred-years-old-or-would-be-if-he-werent-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2013\/02\/how-is-it-that-william-s-burroughs-is-nearly-a-hundred-years-old-or-would-be-if-he-werent-dead.html","title":{"rendered":"How is it that William S Burroughs is Nearly a Hundred Years Old? Or, Would be if He Weren’t Dead…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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\nAuthor and beat notable William S. Burroughs<\/a> would have been ninety-eight today.<\/p>\n

My big claim to Burroughs fame came some years ago when I was working for Moe\u2019s Books. Burroughs was coming by to sign books, I don\u2019t recall what\u2026 But, I did a flyer using words cut out of magazines and then cellophane pasted onto a sheet of paper. I asked that copier service to punch up the contrast so as to show the tape. They agreed to do so only if I did not say who did the job, which they thought was dirty & which is exactly what I wanted.<\/p>\n

(Yes, I\u2019ve mentioned this before\u2026)<\/p>\n

When he saw the flyers he said in his dry as death voice, \u201cNice job.\u201d<\/p>\n

Made my day\u2026<\/p>\n

(And, yes, Mr Burroughs is a very good example why there should be better gun control laws in Mexico, as well as here\u2026)<\/p>\n