set and match

What is being played out in Queer is communication not of a disease –
homosexual desire – but as a disease. The will to communicate occludes
human agency in a solipsistic continuous circuit, a circuit sabotaged
methodologically in Burroughs' cut-up texts through feedback, a '' self-
feeding system seeking its own catastrophe.'' In The Ticket That
Exploded, which begins by rewriting Lee's relationship with Allerton as
a chess match subject to a cut-up queering – '' I took his queen in the
first few minutes of play by making completely random moves '' –
Burroughs could not be more explicit ; '' Communication must become
total and conscious before we can stop it.'' Are the Nova Criminals ''
ghosts ? phantoms ? '' : '' Not at all – very definite organisms indeed
... Can you see a virus ? ''