The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs

Author:William S. Burroughs [Burroughs, William S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: D
ISBN: 9780141189949
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Waghdas, City of Knowledge, is a center for outfitting pilgrims to the Western Lands. Since the dangers are manifold and different for each pilgrim, what equipment and provisions he will need is conjectural. However arcane, recherché, rarified, outré, Alexandrian your requirements, the Waghs can meet them.

Sharp practice and purveyors of the deadly illusion drugs abound: The Western Bubble gives a vista of lake and valley, vast cities and temples and avenues through which the pilgrim moves without effort, free of his body to roam at will without hunger or fatigue or thirst. All this fades in a few hours, leaving the traveler with his hunger, his thirst, his carnal needs, his awkward, bungling body, abrasive, dreary, dead-end surfaces where everything is exactly what it seems to be. There is no mystery, no magic. Death is as prosaic as the daily paper to flattened minds, a bedpan to a terminal cancer patient. There can be nothing beyond, since there is nothing in front or to the sides in this dead empty place without purpose or meaning. The unfortunate traveler, having poured all his magic into the bubble . . . POP . . . gritty surface with nothing behind ... a smell of burnt plastic and rotten oranges.

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