William S. Burroughs: "A Thanksgiving Prayer" (1986)

In the old days, in a zine, a fawning review of a Burroughs record could coexist with a heated denunciation of, let’s say, Clarence Thomas, and the editors would have no obligation to note any contradiction or to print any complaints they might receive from confused readers.

The edgy misfit despair of our youth is not adapted to today’s ecosystem of populist outrage.

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