Thursday, August 07, 2008

"Researchers discover why some smokers addicted with first cigarette"

The title to this post is a headline from the “London Free Press."

Upon reading this headline, I immediately thought of the following quote from the ""Introduction" to the Original “Junk” Manuscript" written by William S. Burroughs.

2. A drug habit is formed instantly, on first use, or at most, after three or four shots.  From this notion derive the stories of people becoming addicts after using a few “headache pills” given them by the Sympathetic Stranger...

And then I laughed.

William S. Burroughs, Junky, 50th Anniversary Definitive Addition, Edited and with an Introduction by Oliver Harris, Appendix 2, “Introduction” to the Original “Junk” Manuscript, pg. 141

Posted by John Venlet on 08/07 at 08:58 AM
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