Promising yourself to do slightly less of this, none of that, yet undoubtedly—despite good intentions—will treat yourself to a little bit of the other. Me too. And I have a technique to make my ...

Burroughs, based on his eponymous novella. William Lee (Burroughs’ nom de plume) lives cheaply and indolently in Mexico City after WWII, hanging around bars, drinking, doing drugs and picking up guys.