Ghost of Chance (High Risk Books) - Softcover

Burroughs, William S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852424575 ISBN 13: 9781852424572

Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 2002

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Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, "the only American writer possessed by genius." While tripping through the author's trademark concerns?drugs, paranoia, and lemurs, this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can tell it.

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William S Burroughs is the grand-daddy of all cult writers. He is the author of Naked Lunch, Junky and many other novels. Short stories appear in High Risk 1 and The Junky's Christmas, both published by Serpent's Tail. He died in 1998. Ghost of Chance was first published by Serpent's Tail in hardback in 1997.

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Presents an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar. While tripping through the author's trademark concerns - drugs, paranoia, and lemurs - this novel tells an important story about environmental devastation.

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Ghost of Chance by William Burroughs

Leadtext: CAPTAIN MISSION STRAPPED on his double-barreled flintlock, which he kept loaded with shot charges, and thrust a scabbarded cutlass under his belt. He picked up his staff and walked out through the settlement, stopping here and there to talk to the settlers.

They had found an excellent red clay for bricks and were constructing two-story dwellings with second-story balconies supported by heavy hardwood pillars. These buildings had been joined to form a tier, with the dining and kitchen areas in the two downstairs rooms and the sleeping and dressing areas upstairs. The balconies were connected and were used for sleeping hammocks and pallets. These structures faced the sea, and steps led down to the bay, where a number of boats were moored.



THE WORD FOR 'lemur' meant 'ghost' in the native language. There were taboos against the killing of ghosts, and Mission had imposed an Article that prohibited killing them, on penalty of expulsion from the settlement. If any crime deserved the death penalty, also prohibited under the Articles, then this was that crime.



He was seeking a different lemur species, described by a native informant as much bigger-like a calf, or a little cow.



'Where are the big ghosts?'



The native gestured vaguely inland. 'You must be careful of the evil Lizard-Who-Changes-Color. If you fall under its spell, you too will change color. You too will turn black with anger, and green with fear, and red with sex . . .'



'Well, what is so wrong with that?'



'In a year you will die. The colors will devour your skin and flesh.'



'You were talking about a big ghost. Bigger than a goat . . . Where are they to be found?'



'When you hear Chebahaka, Man-in-the-Trees, then Big One not there. Her cannot be where noise is.'



'Her?'



'Her. He. For Big Ghost is same.'



'So. He is where Man-in-the-Trees isn't?'



'No. He is there when Man-in-the-Trees is silent.'



This occurred at dawn and sunset.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Serpent's Tail
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1852424575
• ISBN 13: 9781852424572
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 90
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