Having just finished junky by William S. Burroughs, I thought what is the point of this garbage?
But yeah, with a title like Junky, that’s kind of the point right there, isn't it.
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Junky isn’t meant to be “good” in the usual literary sense.
It’s flat, repetitive, cold and often boring.
Exactly like the life it describes.
Burroughs wrote it in a deliberately detached, clinical tone because that is the junkie mindset: no drama, no moral arc, no redemption.
Just the dull, mechanical rhythm of addiction and survival.
It’s not about heroin as much as it IS heroin.
Numbing, cyclical and alienated.
Every fix is the same.
Every city blurs into the next.
Every person’s story ends in decay or jail.
You start to feel the hopeless repetition and by the end you’re almost desperate to get out.
Which is the only honest way to communicate what addiction does.
I wouldn't read it again, but glad I did.
Best of probabilities to you.
Dane.