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Direct your gaze a little higher, and you’ll see a sign directing customers to ask at the desk for works by Kerouac and his contemporaries Charles Bukowski and William S. Burroughs.
In the early 1980S, Burroughs Corp. was desperately seeking a way to get back in the game against IBM. Burroughs had fallen so far behind that it found itself utterly dwarfed by its larger rival. Burroughs' solution? Undertake the then largest merger in computer history: buy Sperry Corp. and create...
Despite achieving encouraging results in the first few quarters post merger--results easy to attain with one-time cost cutting but hard to sustain--Unisys' cumulative net income in the decade after the merger failed to break even. If you had invested $1 in Burroughs at the end of 1985...
Indeed, Corgan counts the Beatles among his artistic influences for their ability to “channel the masses.” He also points to Bob Dylan, science fiction writer Philip K. Dick and author William S. Burroughs ’36.
Other chapters show Catherine joined by her friends Nick, the defensively macho user/dealer, and Alex, the cute junkie rent boy, as they shoot up, go to clubs and wrestle with the complications of a world where truth blends with fiction and fantasy with reality. At one point Alex flirts with...