The Evil that Waits - nano-spoiler

[Peter Giordano]

Kim said:
>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)

I say (after I deleted the quote from M&D):

The line above works quite well for M&D

Peter Giordano
Williams College
Williamstown, MA