checking out Uncle Bill's bookshelf: https://realitystudio.org/publications/road-to-interzone/chris-steins-photograph-of-william-s-burroughs-bookshelf/

suddenly had the lovely thought that maybe it's possible to glean some sort of insight into humanity from relentlessly ingesting Weird Literature And Culture from everywhere and all times, divining the dark side of existence from thoroughly, ceaselessly sifting through the tortured dreams of the species' shared unconscious.

i only know that i know nothing. i will never know everything i need to know.