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I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.

Kathy Acker

I need anything, anything that will stop me from living in the kind of death the bourgeois eat, the death called comfort.

Tags: bourgeoisie, comfort, escape velocity, fear, materialism, meaning, mediocrity, rebellion, safety

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About Kathy Acker

Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 [disputed] – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, playwright, essayist, and postmodernist writer, known for her idiosyncratic and transgressive writing that dealt with themes such as childhood trauma, sexuality and rebellion. Her writing incorporates pastiche and the cut-up technique, involving cutting-up and scrambling passages and sentences; she also defined her writing as existing in the post-nouveau roman European tradition. In her texts, she combines biographical elements, power, sex and violence.