San Francisco, 1982

VALE : Ever had a desire to go to the Cooper School Gunsite [a progressive arms training school in Arizona]?
BURROUGHS : Well... Yeah, you'll get some tips there, I think. By and large it's just getting out on the range and doing a little practicing. What I do is, I start as close as I need to get, in order to get 'em all in the black, then start moving back.

Burroughs Live : The Collected Interviews of William S Burroughs 1960 - 1997. Edited by Sylvere Lotringer (Semiotext[e], Los Angeles and New York, 2001) p553

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