Monday, February 07, 2005

Words of Wisdom to Pass On!

I found this on Seeing the Forest and wanted to pass it on.

(Source: http://www.akiko.ndirect.co.uk/words/advice.html )
From a recording of William S. Burroughs:
Meanwhile, life goes on... I am sometimes asked if I have any words of advice for young people. Well, here are a few simple admonitions for young and old, man and beast.

Never interfere in a boy and girl fight.

Beware of whores who say they don't want money. The hell they don't. What they mean is that they want *more* money; much more, these are the most expensive whores what can be got.

Ahem.

If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing; his word isn't worth shit, not with the good lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.

If, after having been exposed to someone's presence, you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.

We don't like to hear the word "vampire" around here; we're trying to improve our public image. Building a kindly, avuncular, benevolent image; "interdependence" is the keyword -- "enlightened interdependence". Life in all its rich variety, take a little, leave a little. However, by the inexorable logistics of the vampiric process they always take more than they leave -- and why, indeed, should they take any?

Avoid fuck-ups. Fools, I call them. You all know the type -- no matter how good it sounds, everything they have anything to do with turns into a disaster. Trouble for themselves and everyone connected with them. A fool is bad news, and it rubs off -- don't let it rub off on you.

Do not proffer sympathy to the mentally ill; it is a bottomless pit. Tell them firmly, "I am not paid to listen to this drivel -- you are a terminal fool!" Otherwise, they make you as crazy as they are.

Above all, avoid confirmed criminals. They are a special malignant strain of fool.

WS Burroughs


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Anyone who has looked at George W. Bush honestly and evaluated what he has done himself (rather than who is family is, what he says, how much money he has, or who he pals around with) has known that GWB is a fuckup. Nothing good has ever happened because he was there, and the experience of his governorship and Presidency has not changed that experience.

The best GWB can ever say is "Hey! I didn't do it!" but shit keeps happening all around him. He is a fuckup and a fool.

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