S Shah’s Reviews > Word Cultures: Radical Theory and Practice in William S. Burroughs' Fiction > Status Update
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"'If I hold up a sign with the word 'ROSE' written on it, and you read that sign, you will be forced to repeat the word 'ROSE' to yourself. If I show you a picture of a rose you do not have to repeat the word 'ROSE' to yourself. ... A syllabic language forces you to verbalize auditory patterns....It is precisely these automatic reactions to words themselves that enable those who manipulate words to control thought"
— Jul 14, 2025 06:56AM
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S Shah
is on page 88 of 224
"...beyond the limits of present time and body, 'Over the hills and far away.'"
— Aug 19, 2025 06:44AM
S Shah
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"'The 'evil' virus of addiction takes many forms—....the 'addiction to rightness, to being in the right,' the addiction to moral dualism....This rhetoric of indignation manipulates the individual through disgust, shame, and guilt....addiction makes the morality junky physically dependent for survival on his righteous destruction of other life.....such moral indignation functions as a kind of internal parasite...."
— Jun 26, 2025 05:24PM
