From the Boekenmarkt Spui:

  • Allen Ginsberg, Reality Sandwiches

A naked lunch is natural to us,

we eat reality sandwiches.

But allegories are so much lettuce.

Don’t hide the madness.

–On Burroughs’ Work

  • On the psychology of Military Incompetence, by Norman F. Dixon. This promises to be horrifying.

Finally, I owe a debt of gratitude to that handful of people > (who would probably prefer to remain nameless) whose > hostility and dismay that anyone should write a book on > military incompetence provided considerable, if > unlooked-for, confirmation of the relationship between > militarism and human psychopathology.