My Education: A Book of Dreams

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My Education: A Book of Dreams
LC Class
PS3552.U75 M9 1995

My Education: A Book of Dreams (1995) (

War on Drugs and paragraphs created with the cut-up technique. The book is dedicated to Michael Emerton
(January 18, 1966 - November 4, 1992).

Explanation of the novel's title

The title is explained in the very first dream, dated 1959: Burroughs is trying to board an airplane, but a woman at the ticket counter "with the cold waxen face of an intergalactic bureaucrat" refuses him passage, informing him, "You haven't had your education yet."

Plot summary

Most of the dreams are concerned with mundane affairs: talking to his friends

, and others.