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My Education: A Book of Dreams

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760: 215:; protecting his cats; trying to get sex, drugs or something to eat. There are flying dreams, erotic suitcase-packing dreams, dreams of being bullied by men in uniforms. There are references to strange drugs such as "Jade" and "Bogomolets Anti-Human Serum 125." In addition, there are other segments which seem unconcerned with dreams at all, such as a chapter where Burroughs instructs the reader on how to create 194:
The title is explained in the very first dream, dated 1959: Burroughs is trying to board an airplane, but a woman at the ticket counter "with the cold waxen face of an intergalactic bureaucrat" refuses him passage, informing him, "You haven't had your education yet."
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to be published before his death in 1997. It is a collection of dreams, taken from various decades, along with a few comments about the
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Most of the dreams are concerned with mundane affairs: talking to his friends
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Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
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My Education (novel)

William S. Burroughs
Viking Press
Hardcover
Paperback
ISBN
0-670-81350-8
OCLC
30109272
Dewey Decimal
LC Class
ISBN
0-14-009454-7
William S. Burroughs
War on Drugs
cut-up technique
Michael Emerton
Ian Sommerville
Allen Ginsberg
Brion Gysin
botulism
Interzone
Tangiers
London
Paris
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William S. Burroughs

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