'tis too starved a subject for my sword

When Lucien regaled Burroughs with a tale of how he had recently instigated a fight between Kammerer and a gay artist- an altercation that ultimately wound up with Lucien’s biting both the painter and Kammerer- Burroughs dismissed the incident with a single line. "In the words of the immortal Bard,’ Burroughs said, pulling from memory a quotation from Troilus and Cressida, "‘tis too starved a subject for my sword"


on the meeting of minds/madness, on indifference and pre-heroin Burroughs, on the youngness of poor old tragic Lucien Carr, on Ginsberg recounting Lucien Carr conversation with William S. Burroughs, from Schumacher's Ginsberg biography Dharma Lion