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William S. Burroughs

When I die, I become Death. Death is the seed from which I grow

About Me

Anarchist, heroin addict, alcoholic, nihilist, homosexual crusader, and brilliant writer, William S. Burroughs was the patron saint and Prince of Darkness of the Beats of the 1950's. His ground-breaking avant-garde masterpiece Naked Lunch shocked the literary world with its graphic descriptions of drug abuse and sexual perversion wich resulted in a landmark Supreme Court ruling on obscenity. A rebel-hero, Burroughs symbolized the anti-authoritarian cause for three generations of the young and disillusioned, exploring the murkiest depths of human terror and degradation in his art and in his life.

My Interests

consciousness expansion - writing - opiates - vodka and coke - herb - cutting up the universe - shotguns - cats - dream machines - e-meters - space travel - mayan and egyption culture - routines - orgone - magick - evp - general semantics - quantum physics - time travel - self transcendence -

I'd like to meet:

cosmonauts of inner space

Books:

Junky - Queer - Naked Lunch - exterminator! - The Soft Machine - The Ticket That Exploded - Nova Express - the Place Of Dead Roads - Interzone - The Last Words Of Dutch Shultz - Port Of Saints - Yage Letters - The Cat Inside - The Western Lands - Cities Of The Red Night - The Wild Boys - The Third Mind

Heroes:

Jack Black

My Blog

DR. BENWAY

The lavatory has been locked for three hours solid... I think they're using it for an operating room... NURSE:" Adrenalin, doctor?"DR. BENWAY:"The night porter shot it all up for kicks." He looks arou...
Posted by William S. Burroughs on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:17:00 PST

Salt Chunk Mary

"Salt Chunk Mary" had all the "nos" and none of them ever meant "yes". She named a price heavy and cold as a cop's blackjack on a winter night and that was it. She didn't name another. Mary didn't lik...
Posted by William S. Burroughs on Fri, 11 May 2007 06:55:00 PST

Naked Lunch

'Selling is more of a habit than using,' Lupita says. Nonusing pushers have a contact habit, and that's one you can't kick. Agents get it too. Take Bradley the Buyer. Best narcotics agent in the indus...
Posted by William S. Burroughs on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 06:38:00 PST

Nova Express

The basic nova mechanism is very simple: Always create as many insoluble conflicts as possible and always aggravate existing conflicts--This is done by dumping life forms with incompatible conditions ...
Posted by William S. Burroughs on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 07:09:00 PST

THE PLACE OF DEAD ROADS

The only thing that could unite the planet is a united space program& the earth becomes a space station and war is simply out, irrelevant, flatly insane in a context of research centers, spaceports, a...
Posted by William S. Burroughs on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:50:00 PST

1914-1997

William S. Burroughs 1914 - 1997 As a young man, William S. Burroughs already had a reputation as a brilliant, rather strange, and slightly sinister character. Although he'd been born into a well t...
Posted by William S. Burroughs on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 07:28:00 PST