Burroughs and a sphinx. Probably at the Egyptian Museum. (Not sure what the source is...) Thanks, Elliott!
THE MARKET
Panorama of the City of Interzone...
...The blood and substance of many races, Negro, Polynesian, Mountain Mongol, Desert Nomad, Polyglot Near East, Indian--races as yet unconceived and unborn, combinations not yet realized pass through your body...The Composite City where all human potentials are spread out in a vast silent market.
Minarets, palms, mountains. jungle...
Cooking smells of all cities hang over the City...
High mountain flutes, jazz and bebop, one-stringed Mongol instruments, gypsy xylophones, African drums, Arab bagpipes...
(William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch, NY: Grove Press, 1966, pp. 106, 108)
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