Tag Archives: Willianm Burroughs

ZONE OF THEIR OWN : HOBGOBLINS WITH SWORDS

“At the very beginning of the long dialogue between thinkers that makes up western political theory there is Plato’s Republic, and at the very beginning of the Republic there is this strange and interesting exchange. Socrates asks an old man, … Continue reading

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Free Falling with the Phantom Engineer

It Takes A Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry. A weather-beaten bluesy Bob Dylan composition that seems to capture something essential about writer Jack Kerouac ( 1922-1969 ); especially the discouragingly delivered  second line, ”can’t buy a … Continue reading

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