{"artistName":"My Education","artistId":54492,"artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/988/98810239a14f5bd07b6effed8a4dbee8_xl.jpg","srcset":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/988/98810239a14f5bd07b6effed8a4dbee8_sm.jpg 50w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/988/98810239a14f5bd07b6effed8a4dbee8_md.jpg 80w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/988/98810239a14f5bd07b6effed8a4dbee8_lg.jpg 200w,https://artist99.cdn107.com/988/98810239a14f5bd07b6effed8a4dbee8_xl.jpg 340w","artistBio":"\u003cp\u003eMy Education: A Book of Dreams (1995) (ISBN 0-14-009454-7) is the final novel by William S. Burroughs to be published before his death in 1997. It is a collection of dreams, taken from various decades, along with a few comments about the War on Drugs and paragraphs created with the cut-up technique. The book is dedicated to Michael Emerton (January 18, 1966 - November 4, 1992).\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe title is explained in the very first dream, dated 1959: Burroughs is trying to board an airplane, but a woman at the ticket counter \"with the cold waxen face of an intergalactic bureaucrat\" refuses him passage, informing him, \"You haven't had your education yet.\"\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMost of the dreams are concerned with mundane affairs: talking to his friends Ian Sommerville, Allen Ginsberg and Brion Gysin; protecting his cats; trying to get sex, drugs or something to eat. There are flying dreams, erotic suitcase-packing dreams, dreams of being bullied by men in uniforms. In addition, there are other segments which seem unconcerned with dreams at all, such as a chapter where Burroughs instructs the reader on how to create botulism. There is a place he refers to as the Land of the Dead, which, like Interzone, seems to be a conglomeration of many cities: Tangiers, London, Paris, and others.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBurroughs' early work was typified by his dazzling imagination and shocking descriptions. In My Education, there are fewer aliens, a slower pace, and sex is described simply as \"making it.\" This is a mellowed, mature version of Burroughs, unhurriedly observing a beach of coarse gray gravel or a cloud of flies.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuote from pages 89 - 90, \"What a horrible loutish planet this is. The dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. Hopeless rubbish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","musicPath":"/music/My+Education","playStationPath":"/stations/259236827/play","stationId":259236827,"bioPath":"/music/My+Education/_full_bio","similars":[{"musicPath":"/music/Souvenir+s+Young+America","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/ad3/ad38c438009a673711daf9b5a6006bdf_md.jpg","artistName":"Souvenir's Young America","artistId":109822,"station_id":282140961},{"musicPath":"/music/Eksi+Ekso","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/924/924c4cdd20570cb36bc587b9bc6e7597_md.jpg","artistName":"Eksi Ekso","artistId":113827,"station_id":282638682},{"musicPath":"/music/Romance+of+Young+Tigers","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/af6/af623743146484dc32daeeddc33470e3_md.jpg","artistName":"Romance of Young Tigers","artistId":134623,"station_id":286143265},{"musicPath":"/music/Foxhole","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/b94/b94d7d3e863eb69760502e68f37141b2_md.jpg","artistName":"Foxhole","artistId":138397,"station_id":286825017},{"musicPath":"/music/The+Timeout+Drawer","artistDefaultImage":"https://artist99.cdn107.com/1f5/1f55ecff2d9c8ae8bd412c79427878af_md.jpg","artistName":"The Timeout Drawer","artistId":127044,"station_id":284513138}]}