August 2011
10 posts
“Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”
– William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (via digitalpidgin)
“Burroughs’s centipede symbol recalls the Senders of Interzone who, like his Maya...”
– Paul H. Wild, “William S. Burroughs and the Maya Gods of Death: The Uses of Archaeology” (via digitalpidgin)
“The junk merchant doesn’t sell his product to the consumer, he sells the...”
– William S. Burroughs (via shuei)
“Actually my earliest memories are colored by a fear of nightmares. I was afraid...”
– William S. Burroughs, Junky
(maybe she put a hex on him)
“Well, as I’ve often said, how do you know you aren’t dead already?
But quite...”
– William S. Burroughs (via billionsofminds)
“The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is...”
– William S Burroughs (via andyswetz)
“Anything that can be done chemically can be done in other ways.”
– William S. Burroughs (via digitalpidgin)
wordsarefornerds:
“All abilities are paid for with disabilities. Perfect health may entail the heavy toll of bovine stupidity. Insight into one area involves blind spots in another. I could not have done what I have done as a writer had I been a gifted mathematician or physicist. Honesty wrung out of him by pain, he cried out with a loud voice.”
- William S. Burroughs, My Education: A Book...
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ladderandveil:
“There is no final enough of wisdom, experience- any fucking thing. No Holy Grail, No Final Satori, no solution. Just conflict. Only thing that can resolve conflict is love, like I felt for Fletch and Ruski, Spooner, and Calico. Pure love. What I feel for my cats past and present. Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller what there is. LOVE.”
-William S....
July 2011
17 posts
“words are still the principal instruments of control. Suggestions are words....”
– William S. Burroughs, “The Limits of Control” (via digitalpidgin)
“A basic impasse of all control machine is this: Control needs time in which to...”
– William S. Burroughs, “The Limits of Control” (via digitalpidgin)
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“Be just and if you can’t be just, be arbitrary”
– William S. Burroughs (via iwokeupasthesunwasreddening)
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May 2011
10 posts
jsykes:
“Do you love me? - Do you love void and scenic railways back home?? And do you love me with a banjo permutated through do you love me? - i wonder who permutated the structure every time i felt blue - But that was ferris wheels clicking in the stardust of the sky - on perilous tracks -“ William S. Burroughs - The Ticket That Exploded, p.35
“Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.”
– William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch (via digitalpidgin)
Burroughs the Movie (1985) →
lesiamese:
Burroughs the Movie is a feature length film on one of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Watch it for free here.
“I don’t make myself work. It’s just the thing I want to do. To be completely...”
– William Burroughs (via stoicmike)
April 2011
6 posts
vamacara: EGO: Allen Ginsberg proposed to me that... →
vamacara:
EGO: Allen Ginsberg proposed to me that the cut-up technique you developed with Brion Gysin is a sort of counter-brainwashing technique. Do you agree with that? BURROUGHS: It has that aspect in that you’re breaking down the word, you’re creating new words. Right as soon as you start cutting,…
if the weather was good: memory sketch 12 →
iftheweatherwasgood:
“When I say I have no memory of writing Naked Lunch, this is of course an exaggeration, and it is to be kept in mind that there are various areas of memory. Junk is a pain-killer, it also kills the pain and pleasure implicit in awareness. While the factual memory of an addict may be quite…
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March 2011
2 posts
“A naked lunch is natural to us,
we eat reality sandwiches.
But allegories are...”
– Allen Ginsberg, “On Burroughs Work” in Reality Sandwiches
fuck that is a really good book titles (via goosebumpsfitsandmalaria)
February 2011
2 posts
January 2011
3 posts
“To concern yourself with surface political conflicts is to make the mistake of...”
– William S Burroughs (via philphys)
