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a world bounded-according to his newly drawn maps-by Cathay
on the north and Paradise on the south.
In any case, poets and junkies have been suggesting to us that
the new world appropriate to the new men of the latter twentieth
century
is
to be discovered only by the conquest of inner space: by an
adventure of the spirit, an extension of psychic possibility, of which
the flights into outer space-moonshots and expeditions to Mars–
are precisely such unwitting metaphors and analogues as the voyages
of exploration were of the earlier breakthrough into the Renaissance,
from whose consequences the young seek now so desperately to
escape. The laureate of that new conquest
is
William Burroughs;
and it is fitting that the final word be his:
"This war will
be
won in the air. In the Silent Air with Image
Rays. You were a pilot remember? Tracer bullets cutting the
right wing you were free in space a few seconds before in blue
space between eyes. Go back to Silence. Keep Silence. Keep
Silence. K.s: K.S.... From Silence re-write the message that
is you. You are the message I send to The Enemy. My Silent
Message."
The Naked Astronauts were free in space....
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