The archive is particularly interesting because Burroughs clearly intended it, primarily through its organization and the art/word illustrations on its folders, to be read and absorbed as a work of art in itself.

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Not only was Burroughs one of the three progenitors of the Beat movement ... but he may also be regarded as one of 20th-century America's great satirists, fiercely sinister and corrosive.

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This archive has really achieved legendary status among people who follow the Beat writers.

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