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In *My Education*, William S. Burroughs assembles hundreds of intense, vivid dreams that serve as a powerful, spiraling core to explore perception, consciousness, and artistic creation. The work reflects Burroughs’s provocative ideas on writing, painting, and personal experience, offering a deeply personal, memoir‑like journey through the imagination.
First publish date: 1995
Genre: Literary Fiction/Experimental Fiction
Authors: William S. Burroughs
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