“Consider the impasse of a one-God universe.He is all-knowing and all-powerful.He can’t go anywhere, since He is already everywhere.He can’t do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition.His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition.So, He has to create friction:War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.”
Harold Chapman William S Burroughs at the Beat Hotel, 9 Rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris c.1956
“Well as, one judge said to the other, ‘Be just and if you can’t be just be arbitrary.‘“ William S Burroughs, “Naked Lunch” 1959
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