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...soul. Burroughs has been there, all right; he is not only an ex-junkie, but an ex-con and. by accident, a killer. In Mexico, having acquired a wife, he shot her between the eyes playing William Tell with a revolver. (The Mexican authorities decided it was imprudentia criminate and dropped the whole matter.) He has even been in the Army, but not for long; he reacted to being drafted by cutting off a finger joint, and was discharged with the notation "not to be recalled or reclassified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King of the YADS | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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