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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
  • 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

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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