The wild boys
The Wild Boysis a futuristic tale of global warfare in which a guerrilla gang of boys dedicated to freedom battles the organized armies of repressive police states. Making full use of his inimitable humor, wild imagination, and style, Burroughs creates a world that is as terrifying as it is fascinating.
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- I reread Burroughs when I get like that. From Wild Boys, in the chapter "Dead Child":
I held out my hands no more power left in them head against a tree it was cold on my eyes moon that night solid I could touch almost couldn't get the leg was broken and teeth tore past the bones at me begging for help pictures all cut up knife had fallen I lay there my pieces moved and shifted against a tree I spit up from my stomach green when day came and mist steamed up to the top of the high tree just under the leaves at the top and looking down I could see my body lying there the leg all twisted and the face caved in lips drawn back showing teeth I could see and hear but I couldn't talk without a throat without a tongue sun moon and stars on the face down there worms in the leg weeds growing through the bones.
- Voluptuous Panic had a section on "Wild-Boys", hypersexual BDSM-style roving gangs of teenagers. This and other characteristics of "Weimar degeneracy" were often discussed on 4chan's /pol/, by white nationalists who often came there to spread their word I assume. Seeing such a mention is what led me to a rabbit hole, I later wrote a short Wikipedia article on Mel Gordon, the writer of that work.
Apparently pedaresty was something treated on par with homosexuality those days[1]—Oscar Wilde was a pedarest, now remembered more for the "homosexuality trial". Many prominent writers, artists and such engaged in it, without much consequence. Perhaps Weimar was a bit more extreme, but the attitude seen there wasn't limited to Weimar alone. It was only much later that pedaresty was fully decoupled from homosexuality. If I remember correctly, NAMBLA was a member of the international LGBT alliance until the 1990s.
- Less safe: Take one of these ...
https://www.amazon.com/Indian-Galvanized-Fire-Smith-5-Gallon...
... filled with lighter fluid, plus one of these ...
https://www.amazon.com/Flexible-Lighters-bernzomatic-flexibl... ...
and some duct tape.
Got that from William S. Burroughs' The Wild Boys.
- Well, some of the stuff that people do to make a point about discrimination and harassment is expressly done "with the intent to disturb people". I pulled my example from William Burroughs' Wild Boys. But some of the costumes in gay pride marches come pretty damn close. And hey, it's all good fun. But people need to play safe, avoiding needless risk.
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