Old age mellowed Burroughs, but only to a point. His governing - TopicsExpress



          

Old age mellowed Burroughs, but only to a point. His governing obsessions are still on display, but now they’ve shriveled into crankiness — in both senses of the word. (Unfortunately, his world-class humor, in the form of those hilariously sick cosmic jokes uttered in a deadpan tough-guy rhetoric he picked up from Dashiell Hammett, has faded.) He rages predictably against William Bennett, Newt Gingrich and President Clinton as peddlers of anti-drug messages, an animus that seems as tired and cornball as the messages themselves. He denounces the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan, salon/2000/02/25/burroughs/ And some of his rages are still less attractive.
Posted on: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:38:01 +0000

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