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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
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And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac
Grove Press
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The Ticket That Exploded
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Place of Dead Roads
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Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader
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The Soft Machine
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The Adding Machine : Selected Essays
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William S. Burroughs
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