Century Portuguese Explorer

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    Who is so deaf or so blind as he
    That wilfully will neither hear nor see?
    —16th century English proverb, collected in J. Heywood, Dialogue of Proverbs (1546)

    In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas ... a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed.
    William Burroughs (b. 1914)