William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
"The Coming of the Purple Better One"
Exterminator! A Novel (1971)
“When has the world seen a phenomenon like this?”
a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 56.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 56.
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