This book really gets to me. It's got all of the bells & whistles of taking an altered trip, including extreme hallucinations, time-shifts and paranoia. ( I can feel the heat closing in. -first sentence.) It's dark, twisted, demented, funny, contemplating, with a pure anti-heroin finallity. Bill comes to many conclusions on various levels, touching everything from power-abuse to medical abuse, to sex abuse and all other things that are happening either without our knowledge, or without our care. I've read somewhere that this is a cut n paste job made for artistic value to deviate from what readers are used to --but this is irrelevant. It's a masterpiece of political commentary, looking deep from within the mind of one of those who are in the midst of what is really happening... seeming to use drugs in order to cope with it... and realizes the horrid state of affairs Western society is actually emmersed in. Put Bill Burroughs alongside Samuel Beckett, George Orwell and Oscar Wilde, in t