Inspector Lee and the Nova Police fight the Nova Mob in a decisive struggle for the planet in The Ticket That Exploded, the last instalment of William S. Burroughs' great "cut-up" trilogy, which began with The Soft Machine and ended with Nova Express. Only Burroughs could create such a terrifying and compelling image of scientists and combat troops, ad men and con artists whose dishonest language has spread like an incurable sickness.
The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of silence. Try halting sub-vocal speech. Try to achieve even ten seconds of inner silence. You will encounter a resisting organism that forces you to talk. That organism is the word.
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