RyanH: This is not a call out thread

[Julez]

You obviously are a bit of a literary(sp.) expert.

Just wondered what your opinion was on William Burroughs?

 

[RyanH]

You obviously are a bit of a literary(sp.) expert.

Just wondered what your opinion was on William Burroughs?

amazing guy, and he has a huge following. I loved Western Land and Naked Lunch. He challenged my previously held narrow-world view when I first started reading his works. His surreal and subversive books opened up an entirely new world for me. Because of him, I began to question everything traditional/ conservative, all the old dichotomies and ways of thinking that does nothing but hinder imagination, art, and creativity.

What have you read?

Ryan.

 

[Julez]

I am engrossed in 'Naked Lunch', excellent book. I saw the film, not so good.

Anyway, I think W.B. starred in the film 'Drugstore Cowboy' as the junkie priest.

 

[RyanH]

I am engrossed in 'Naked Lunch', excellent book. I saw the film, not so good.

Anyway, I think W.B. starred in the film 'Drugstore Cowboy' as the junkie priest.

Naked Lunch was an eye-opening experience for me. It was a tough read, but once you really get into it....WOW!

Have you read any of Ginsberg?

 

[Julez]

No, is it in the same gendre?

 

[RyanH]

Yeah, Ginsberg is the same genre.

Burroughs, in my view, is the best example of how true artists are usually the most fucked-up people. For some reason high intelligence very often brings continuous tragedy. Burroughs had a life of drugs, but look at all the people he influenced.

I have experienced every single emotion while reading Burroughs.

 

[Julez]

Yeah, Ginsberg is the same genre.

Burroughs, in my view, is the best example of how true artists are usually the most fucked-up people. For some reason high intelligence very often brings continuous tragedy. Burroughs had a life of drugs, but look at all the people he influenced.

I have experienced every single emotion while reading Burroughs.

Did he not move to Mexico in the end?

It is interesting that most of his life he seemed to be in denial over his sexuality...... know in the book it expresses so, but, biographically speaking, nil.

What is the quote 'I would walk over 1000 miles of glass just to fuck one boys ass'?(don't quote me, this is what one of the lit don's at my uni. said to me, probably ginned up, usually are!......)kinda stuck.

 

[musclebrains]

There is a great rap about dealing with women by Burroughs on the Material/Hallucination CD.

I like Burroughs' work, but prefer Henry Miller's.

Allen Ginsberg used to be a frequent visitor to the Little Five Points section of Atlanta, Ryan. I once saw him there in his white-robes period and convinced him to recite some of Howl to the skateboarding crowd.

 

[Test boy]

I don't know how people can study philosophical books and still function effectively. A lot of philosophy seems bent on making the reader no longer fit in with the rest of society.

Society is kind of screwed but it is what we have.

I went to a Buddhist wedding yesterday. Nicest people I've ever dealt with but that is the rep of orientals. Anyone know some stats on practicing Buddhists?

 

[musclebrains]

I don't know how people can study philosophical books and still function effectively. A lot of philosophy seems bent on making the reader no longer fit in with the rest of society.

Society is kind of screwed but it is what we have.

I went to a Buddhist wedding yesterday. Nicest people I've ever dealt with but that is the rep of orientals. Anyone know some stats on practicing Buddhists?

Say what?