Table of contents:
The Do Rights
A Writer
Western Lands
The Writer
The Cut Ups
Roosevelt After Inauguration
Young Writers
Young People
The Word
Thanksgiving Prayer
Travelling
Dr. Benway
The Future
This may be of interest to any writer or artist, to creative people with open minds (assuming ears not offended by colorful choice of diction). Burroughs touches on differences between The Tibetan Book of the Dead and The Egyptian Book of the Dead, class warfare even after death (only the rich and powerful get mummies, but mummies are fragile), and -- in the post-credit coda, space travel -- don't miss the jellyfish astronauts!
Today's Rune: Growth.
3 comments:
Somehow I have ended up with a William S Burroughs half-sung/half spoken word compilation in my music collection. He is difficult to listen to at times, but certainly never ordinary.
Jellyfish astronauts? egads.
Erik-Stacey and Ed turned me on to Burroughs. He scared the hell out of me. Too strange and heavy of a read!
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