>went to Harvard
>heroin junky
>friends with prominent artists and criminals
>unapologetic faggot, pre- gay-rights era
>cut his own finger off
>killed his wife
>lived as a fugitive
>acclaimed writer and painter
>inspired countless artists across every medium and lived to see it.
Has any author lived a more interesting life than Mr. Burroughs?
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>killed his wife
glad to see he was red pilled as well, good man
>went to Harvard
>failed trustafarian who got hooked on drugs
>wrote a bunch of gimmicky bullshit
>died
>born in nazi-occupied ghetto
>wife murdered by charles manson family
>rapes 13 year old girl and flees to escape charge
>directs some of the most acclaimed films in history
well maybe not as interesting as Burroughs, but still pretty fascinating
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>born in the slums of Northampton
>kicked out of school for dealing LSD
>revolutionizes comics, then gets bored of comics industry and tells it to fuck off
>constantly ripped off by hacks
>ceremonial magician and William Blake enthusiast
>claims to have met characters he created IRL
>worships a puppet to emphasize how much he loves the human imagination
>writes 1200-page novel about one square mile of his hometown
>also paints, sings, does spoken-word pieces, and sometimes dresses up like a mandrill
>moving into poetry next
>be literal billionaire alien Egyptian gods
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holy...
yeah, but his books are complete shit.
> wins school poetry competition
> gets fucked up on absinthe
> totally not gay
> Shoots Verlaine
> sells guns in Africa
> dies
what an absolute madman.