The Ticket that Exploded Ancient Symbols and a clothespin ballista

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A first collection of short works by the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha depicts the immigrant experience in contemporary Ireland as reflected in the stories of a father who confronts his prejudices when his daughter brings home a black man

and index included

Rosie and Jacob silently join her in dancing a goodbye dance

In times of trouble

The Ticket that Exploded Ancient Symbols and a clothespin ballistaAn outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men and con men of the Nova Mob, a call to arms against those driving our planet toward the point of destruction. Like the other two volumes of Burroughs' Cut Up Trilogy, The Soft Machine and Nova Express, it is today as fresh in its form and as urgent in its