The Evil that Waits - nano-spoiler

[Kim L. Serkes]

A line from M&D set off one of my few remaining synapses, reminding me
of something I'd read long ago.

I'll just quote the earlier work, and then (down a few lines) the
passage from M&D. It's really not much of a spoiler.


"America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers,
before the Indians. The evil is there waiting"

     --- "Naked Lunch," William S. Burroughs (Grove, 1966, p. 11)























"He sees where blows with Rifle-Butts miss'd their Marks, and chipp'd the
Walls. He sees blood in Corners never cleans'd. Thankful he is no longer a
Child, else might he curse and weep, scattering his Anger to no Effect. Dixon
must be his own stern Uncle, and smack himself upon the Pate at any sign of
unfocusing. What in the Holy Names are these people about? Not even the
Dutchmen at the Cape behav'd this way. Is it something in this Wilderness,
something ancient, that waited for them and infected their Souls when they
came?"

 --- M&D, p. 347