"The blue sickness is a theme I came up with. It initially started when I was trying to describe taking too much codeine.
Then I started to think of the blue sickness as more of a mind frame for people in our age group, where you sort of don't want to go back. you don't want to go forward, it's like everyone's on this one constant nasty middle ground. The blue sickness went on to describe that whole position of sort of being stuck in the middle."

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside." William S. Burroughs

For some, knowledge has made existence a godless purgatory-a savage middle ground, an incurable disease, a blue sickness." Rev. Theolopolous Jones