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William S. Burroughs Quotes: Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
         

Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.


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