What does the money machine eat?

 

"To travel in space you must learn to leave the old verbal garbage behind: food talk, priest talk, mother talk, family talk, love talk, party talk, country talk. You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to see what is in front of you with no preconceptions.

What does the money machine eat to shit out? 

It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty

and above all it eats creativity. 

It eats quality and shits out quantity."

Q: To what extent can this "new mythology", this new framework of associations and images, affect the awareness of the reader, and make him move about in space and time?

A: That would depend entirely on the reader, how open he is to new experience, and how able he is to move out of his own frame of reference. Of course most people are only able to give a very small fraction of their attention to what they read -- to anything they're doing -- because of their various compulsive preoccupations, and with just a tenth of their attention on something they don't move very far. Others are able to apply much more attention.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

The wavelength most dangerous to human life is 7 hz.

― William S. Burroughs

SOURCE: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/ehn/Web/release/burroughs.html