The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs. Signed First Edition.

"The Word is Now a Virus"

I've got another Burroughs for you guys today (I'm a big fan) - The Ticket That Exploded, here presented as a signed first edition.

The Ticket that Exploded was first published in Paris as part of The Olympia Press' The Traveller's Companion series, which included other literary classics like Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita (1955) and Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy (1956), among others. It is the second installment in Burroughs's The Nova Trilogy, which also includes The Soft Machine (1961) and Nova Express (1964). Together, the series represents Burroughs' follow-up to his 1959 The Naked Lunch.

In The Ticket that Exploded, Burroughs describes Nova Police Inspector J. Lee's investigation of the Nova Mob, a group of intergalactic criminals who are intent on destroying Earth by using mind control. Like the other novels in The Nova Trilogy, Burroughs wrote The Ticket that Exploded using Brion Gysin's cut-up method, in which the authors slice up paragraphs of text and then combine unrelated words and phrases to create a new text.

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