TY - BOOK AU - Burroughs,William S. TI - The adding machine: selected essays SN - 1559702109 : PAP AV - PS3552.U75 A63 1993 U1 - 814/.54 20 PY - 1993/// CY - New York PB - Arcade Pub., Distributed by Little, Brown N1 - The name is Burroughs -- My own business -- Les voleurs -- Beauty and the bestseller -- A word to the wise guy -- Technology of writing -- Creative reading -- Ten years and a billion dollars -- It belongs to the cucumbers -- The fall of art -- Hemingway -- The great Gatsby -- The Johnson family -- Bugger the queen -- Civilian defense -- Sexual conditioning -- On Freud and the unconscious -- On coincidence -- Paris please stay the same -- God's own medicine -- The last junky -- The limits of control -- The hundred year plan -- Women: a biological mistake? -- Innortality -- It is necessary to travel... -- The four horsemen of the apocalypse -- The great glut -- POP and the heroids -- Mind war -- In the interests national security -- Notes from Class transcript -- Who did what where and when? -- An epitaph -- My experiences with Wilhelm Reich's orgone box -- How you stop smoking -- The maugham curse -- Remembering Jack Kerouac -- Beckett and Proust -- Graham Greene -- Cutting up characters -- A review of the reviewers -- Light reading ER -