I've always had a soft spot for the
incontinent, old junky. William S.
Burroughs
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I've always had a soft spot for the
incontinent, old junky.
He's a highly quotable gentleman!
"Gluttony of the Sweets, the Sugars, the
Deadly Apples, melting in the mouth, transmuting teeth and
gristle and bone into a toothsome sweetmeat. One taste, and the
deadly process is activated: digestive juices concentrate and
churn, eating the body away, leaving the pearly cream testicles,
the crispy penis that yields with sweet reluctant delay and the
quintessence of delight residing in the juice of the Adam's Apple
dissolves to ingest the living brain, quivering like a great
oyster, from the softened skull . . . oh! oh! La la la . . .
slurp . . . blub . . ." - William S. Burroughs (1992)
Ever wondered what would happen if Billy became the Swedish Chef? I did, and here's the results!
"It was time to act-Using the drug the doctor had given me, I took over the priest's body, gained access to the room where the codices were kept, and photographed the books -- Equipped now with sound and image track of the control machine I was in position to dismantle it -- I had only to mix the order of recordings and the order of image and the changed order would be picked up and fed back into the machine- I had recordings of all agricultural operations, cutting and burning brush etc. -- I now correlated the recordings of burning brush with the image track of this operation, and shuffled the time so that the order to burn came late and a year's crop was lost--Famine weakening control lines, I cut radio static into the control music and festival recordings together with sound and image track rebellion. 'Cut word lines - Cut music lines - Smash the control images - Smash the control machine - Burn the books Kill the priests - Kill!Kill!Kill!'"
"I recall an interview with a cretenous reporter, and he said 'Mr. Burroughs, is there anything in your life that you regret? Anything that you would do differently if you had it to do over?' I just looked at him with my mouth open! What did you say? No, don't repeat it... Well, I'm lucky if I get through a *day* without something I did wrong; something I regret. And he's talking about a lifetime, good God!"
This is Burroughs sound file. It's about a half meg .au
format. Why are we here? Well, we're Here to Go! (Apparently,
this recording comes from William S. Burroughs, Breakthrough
in the Grey Room (Sub-Rosa Records).
Last Modified: 1 September, 2000.
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