Committed, Unapologetic and Unrepentant

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Without giving a damn about the adage and speaking impolitely… are you aware that abstract painter, author, teacher, and voice actor, William S. Burroughs, is considered the third most famous drug addict in literary history?

A direct descendant of the founder of what became the Burroughs Corporation, and a graduate of Harvard University with honors (English,1936), he was a personal acquaintance of Alan Ginsberg and the pioneer of the “cut up technique.”

Described as self-deluding, narcissistic, yet curious with patrician manners, he began writing at age eight, was gainfully under, or perpetually unemployed for most of his adult life, received a monthly allowance from his parents until age fifty, and either accidentally or purposefully murdered his first of two wives, despite being openly gay.

Born during the era preceding the Harris Act of 1922, he developed seduction for morphine as a teenager when it was administered for pain after he severely burn…