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  The A-bomb was invented in William Burroughs’ old classroom

  01.07.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “[Burroughs] was pleased to hear that during the war the school was sequestered by the government for the Manhattan project and it was there, in Bill’s old classroom, the atomic bomb was invented. ‘It seemed so right, somehow,’ he commented later.”
  Jack Kerouac, a portrait, by Barry Miles, p53.
  It can’t seem more right.

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