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William S. Burroughs
Pride, from the portfolio The Seven Deadly Sins
1991
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Artist
William S. Burroughs
(American, 1914–1997)
- Title Pride, from the portfolio The Seven Deadly Sins
- Date 1991
- Medium Screenprint
- Edition description 29/90
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Dimensions
framed | 46 7/8 x 32 7/8 x 2 in.
unframed |
- Credit line University purchase, Art Acquisition Fund, 1995
- Object number WU 1995.16.07 b
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Work type
print
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Theme
Poetry and Writing
4/13/1995
Shearburn Fine Art, William
Inscription Textual component: Sin is a stuck record, round and round, over and / over, always the same, and by being always the same, / always deader, the smell of decay always heavier. / Nothing ever escapes from the Yellow lagoon of / terminal torpor, from the searing erogenous fumes of / hermetic Lust, the green acids of Envy, the mineral / hunger of discarnate Avarice, the Pride that must / always excel, the Anger that must blight and kill when / there is nothing left to blight or kill, round and round, slower and slower . . . Christ bled, Orgone balked at the / post, Time ran out. Thermodynamics has won at a crawl. / Toise, Master of the Seven Chains, admonishes sweetly: / "You reckon ill wo leave me out — When me you fly, / I am the wings.“
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