Doesn't Do
Jessica Esch
December 2023
From the Jessica Esch: Fill in the Blanks exhibition
Original Statement:
Duncan Fallowell: You're pretty gun crazy.
William Burroughs: I don't think crazy is quite the word. I just like guns. Some people like butterflies, some people like . . . knife collections are very popular, you know. For me to be justified in shooting someone, he has to be using what is legally known as deadly force. The deadly force hasn't come at me yet, and I don't expect it will, but it doesn't do any good to be wise after the event.
Source:
William Burroughs, Time Out, September 24-30, 1982 (The Norton Book of Interviews, Edited by Christopher Silvester, W.W. Norton & Company, 1996, p.577
Details:
1960 Royal FP typewriter
Pre-stamped U.S. Air Mail envelope addressed to Mrs. A. H. Carpenter
3 3/4" x 6 3/4"
Pricing available upon request.