A Wealthy, Deskbound, Healthy Man
As Burroughs was busy crafting his macho hero, he started to understand that he was now in his own deskbound profession. “I was sort of ashamed of it as an occupation for a big, strong, healthy man,” he both admitted and boasted about at the same time. But then again, he finally succeeded at something and had money to his name.
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He may have been bound to a desk, but he could now pay his bills. Finally, a wealthy man at the age of 44, he moved to California in 1919 and purchased a large ranch north of Los Angeles. This is the land he decided to call Tarzana. But his accomplishments weren’t going to last very long…