A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs do…

William S. Burroughs
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A junky runs on junk time. When the junk is cut off, the clock runs down and stops. All he can do is hang on and wait for non-junky time to start. A sick junky has no escape from external time, no place to go. He can only wait. ✨ Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict. Book by William S. Burroughs (published under the pseudonym William Lee), 1953.
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