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Tangier, it's morocco, but from 1923 through 1956 it was loosely governed by the major powers in international zone. for years it seemed everything was permitted. nothing was forbidden. at the northern tip of africa, a short ferry hop from spain, tangier was a magnet for writers, remittance men, spies and artists. if you were a bad boy your time, you liked drugs, kind of sex frowned upon at home and affordable lifestyle set against an exotic background, tang engineer was for you. nice. matisse, jenet, william burrows. many have come this way, staying a while or hanging around, but no one staye...

A nonlinear, dark, dry humored seeringly critical and satirical and profane masterpiece. burroughs was apparently high for much of the process, on heroin or on a locally valuable opiate and the daily staple in many of those parts, hashish. hashish is the concentrated thc resin of the cannabis plant as well as the leaves and flowers that have been separated from the buds and compressed into sheet or brick-like form. keif, a more local and indigenous product, is part of the plant containing only strongest concentration of psychoactive ingredients. majune is a confection made from keef, fruits, n...

I did absolutely nothing. i could look at the end of my shoes for eight hours. i was only roused to action when the hourglass of junk ran out. the words of william seward burroughs, one of my heroes. he came to tangier in 1953, shortly after shooting his wife to death in a drunken accident in mexico city. he was a heroin addict, a homosexual and an inspiration to those who became known as the beat. william burroughs was not a beatnik. he was a somewhat stuffy, well-dressed st. louis son of a good family gone wrong. he was also to my mind the greatest writer of the whole damn bunch. on the road...

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