trainspotters
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"Junk is a cellular equation that teaches the user facts of general validity. I have learned a great deal from using junk: I have seen life measured out in eyedroppers of morphine solution. I experienced the agonizing deprivation of junk sickness, and the pleasure of relief when junk-thirsty cells drank from the needle....I have learned the cellular stoicism that junk teaches the user. I have seen a cell full of sick junkies silent and immobile in a separate misery. They knew the pointlessness of complaining or moving. They knew that basically no one can help anyone else. There is no key, no secret someone else has that he can give you.
I have learned the junk equation. Junk is not...a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. "
William S. Burroughs, Junkie