I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he pa…

William S. Burroughs
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I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune. ✨ William S. Burroughs (2007). Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader, p.151, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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