The Place of Dead Roads- W.Burroughs

By tdf, June 4, 2007

Undeniably abstract.
Intensely eclectic, entertaining stories pulled together by threads of contemporary/ancient wisdom and philosophy, the likes of which I havent encountered through reading any other wordSmith..

A colourful, constantly transforming narrative based around the life and Times of a homosexual assassin named Kim Carsons..A Truly devastating ANTI-hero..Within these pages lies a Real scattering of important Truths (about Existence) aNd suggestions of an unravelling of all that humans perceive to be ‘out of their hands’ i.e. Time and Space.

AnimAL RAtiNG 9/10

A Passage taken from The Place of Dead Roads:

‘The magical theory of history: the magical universe presupposes that nothing happens unless someone or some power, some living entity wills it to happen. There are no coincidences and no accidents. A chaotic situation is always deliberately produced. Ask yourself who or what sort of creature could benefit from such a situation. Even in the crudest economic terms there are those who profit from chaos…speculators, black marketeers, ultimately warlords and bandits…’

and one more for the road….
‘Who but an asshole wants to see people grovelling in front of him?’……..