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And the hippos were boiled in their tanks

by Ray Porter, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac

2008 214 pages eng

"On August 14, 1944, Lucien Carr, a friend of William S. Burroughs from St. Louis, stabbed a man named David Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife and threw his body in the Hudson River. For eight years, Kammerer had fawned over the younger Carr, but that night something happened: either Carr had had enou…

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