Blog: benperry.net

William Burroughs would've loved this town. Walking around the area of Kottbusser Tor, I think sometimes I've walked right into Naked Lunch . It's got the obscenity, the freaks, the superfreaks, the rain-streaked bleakness, junkies, literate junkies, stupid junkies, romantic junkies and the cornucopia of psychotropic offerings to support them, each user his own self-proclaimed prophet of ancient apocalyptic wisdom. Today riding the subway line U8 , the north-south one bisecting central Berlin, I was reading a book. When the train arrived at Hermannplatz, a blond-haired man in his 40s, wearing a rough wool sweater matching his hair [...]