"On stools covered in white satin sit naked Mug-
wumps sucking translucent, colored syrups through
alabaster straws. Mugwumps have no liver and nourish
themselves exclusively on sweets. Thin, purple-blue
lips cover a razor-sharp beak of black bone with which
they frequently tear each other to shreds in fights
over clients. These creatures secrete an addicting fluid
from their erect penises which prolongs life by slow-
ing metabolism. (In fact all longevity agents have
proved addicting in exact ratio to their effectiveness
in prolonging life.) Addicts of Mugwump fluid are
known as Reptiles. A number of these flow over chairs
with their flexible bones and black-pink flesh. A fan
of green cartilage covered with hollow, erectile hairs
through which the Reptiles absorb the fluid sprouts
from behind each ear. The fans, which move from time
to time touched by invisible currents, serve also some
form of communication known only to Reptiles." - William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch.
I was born in Tangiers, Morrocco, in 1913. Mugwumps aren't aliens, or really all that different from humans, as you call them. I can be found in bars and in the seedy areas of town, sometimes hiding in shadows and the dark recesses of the human soul. In fact, if there were no humans there would be no Mugwumps because it was the NEED of us to humans that created us. After haning out with Bill Burroughs in Tangiers I moved to the USA for a while. Guess I go back and forth really, from Morrocco to the USA, Mexico, Venus... and you humans make it so difficult sometimes. We control what you need, how you get it, and how much it costs.
We are everywhere.
Noteable Mugwumps:
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., president of the Union Pacific Railroad
Henry Adams, author
Edward Atkinson, entrepreneur and business executive
Dr. Benway, trafficer of The Black Meat
Charles William Eliot, President of Harvard University
E. L. Godkin, editor of The Nation
Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
Carl Schurz, former Senator from Missouri and Secretary of the Interior, editor of the Saturday Evening Post
William Graham Sumner, social scientist, Yale University
Mark Twain, author, self-identified as a Mugwump in his essay, Christian Science
Horace White, editor of the Chicago Tribune
