Kick is seeing things from a special angle. Kick is momentary freedom from the claims of the aging, cautious, nagging, fightened flesh.

William S. Burroughs Junky
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"Kick" represents a unique perspective on experience, offering a temporary escape from the constraints and fears associated with aging and the burdens of reality. It suggests that there are moments when one can transcend the limitations imposed by the physical self and societal expectations. This brief liberation allows for a refreshing insight into life, free from the usual anxieties.

In William S. Burroughs' "Junky," the idea of "kick" captures the essence of fleeting exhilaration. It portrays how these moments of freedom can provide clarity and a different viewpoint on existence. This shift away from fear and caution highlights the contrast between the vibrant experiences of life and the mundane challenges posed by everyday existence.

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Junk sickness is the reverse side of junk kick. The kick of junk is that you have to have it. Junkies run on junktime and junkmetabolism. They are subject to junk climate. They are warmed and chilled by junk. The kick of junk is living under junk conditions. You cannot escape from junk sickness anymore than you can escape from junk kick after a shot.

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You're both mother fuckers. She was half asleep. Her voice was matter-of-fact as if referring to actual incest.

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I don't spot junk neighbourhoods by the way they look, but by the feel, somewhat the same process by which a dowser locates hidden water. I am walking along and suddenly the junk in my cells moves and twitches like the dowsers wand: 'Junk here!

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After Bill got his shot, a little color crept into his face and he would become almost coy. It was a gruesome sight. I remember once he told me how he'd been propositioned by a queer who offered him twenty dollars. Bill declined, saying I don't think you would be very well satisfied. Bill twitched his fleshless hips. You should see me in the nude, he said. I'm really cute.

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A John is different from a sucker. When you're with a sucker you're on alert all the time. You give him nothing. A sucker is just to be taken but a John is different. You give him what he pays for. When you're with him you enjoy yourself and you want him to enjoy himself too.

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The conversations had a nightmare flatness, talking dice spilled in the tube metal chairs, human aggregates disintegrating in cosmic inanity, random events in a dying universe where everything is exactly what it appears to be, and no other relation than juxtaposition is possible.

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