I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of bei…

William S. Burroughs
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I began to get a feeling familiar to me from my bartending days of being the only sane man in a nuthouse. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact. ✨ And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks.
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