The Evil that Waits - nano-spoiler

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Kim L. Serkes wrote:
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> A line from M&D set off one of my few remaining synapses, reminding me
> of something I'd read long ago.
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> 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.
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> "America is not a young land: it is old and dirty and evil before the settlers,
> before the Indians. The evil is there waiting"
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>      --- "Naked Lunch," William S. Burroughs (Grove, 1966, p. 11)
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> "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?"
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>  --- M&D, p. 347
beautiful connection, and quite relevant. the greats do read each other.
what is history to a dedicated writer but other writings?
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