But never basic human decency, this intellectual masturbation is brought to you from Burrough's Word Salad Bar. Glass beads to the digital natives from just another boomer trustafarian snuff sex tourist. Naice!

Oh that's SO super, momma, praising a sadistic pedophile. You should consider teaching mental gymnastics and or moral inversion. or Stay Fuzzy ... This generation of kids have it worst ever ...

You’re so lucky! I was born in ‘81! Big time Burroughsian since I was 15 years old. I hand-wrote a letter I mailed to him in 1996 (which he may or may not have read). I missed the opportunity to meet him in person or see him live. :(

However, I did have a fan sighting of Lawrence Ferlinghetti at City Lights about 15 years ago! He was giving an elderly couple a tour of the building and the “Beat” room where Ginsberg first did his reading of “Howl”! It was so awesome! I was polite and didn’t interrupt him or act like an asshole “fan-boy”, especially since he was busy talking to those two other customers and I just let him do his thing. Was SO cool!!

@@MichaelWaisJr If you were 15 you were way too old for his sadistic practices, you must be gutted.

You were in his class, or maybe you were not? Intellectual rigour and eidetic recall right there. How the elites still dictate culture, this why we are where we are today kids. Folks will follow trust fund kids like Burroughs to hell and back kissing their feet all the while. How ironic after all those drugs and paranoia his scattered thought processes are permanently "cut up"

What’s some of these experiments ?

​@@jacobloving6765 cut up down the dividing line

Why don't you just go ahead and read one of his books? Warning: Naked Lunch may creep you out to no end. I'm still trying to recover.

... bux suggestion :: ' nova express " ...

Sadistic pedophiles are especially endearing if you're a starving 8 yo boy. They leave no written record and didn't live off trust funds Be careful out there Pollyanna.

@@Blissblizzard Little Boy Blew... ...He Needed the Money!

It is even MORE advisable, a wise course of action, to refrain from drawing conclusions, until ALL the FACTS have been gathered, and properly processed. Doing otherwise is a capital mistake. It is reckless, foolish, and dangerous. Nothing good comes of it. I've heard some allegations about certain people all my life. Some may have basis in actual fact, some not. Most is just hearsay and are convoluted, biased imaging of something else entirely. I personally refuse to play ball, with stupid gossipers who try to come off as being educated, and or informed about things they know NOTHING about for certain. If you want to insinuate something, or call someone out, you had best be able to stand up, with verifiable conviction and back up your claims and words. I would prefer to TAKE away something of VALUE from the life of this man, that HAS intrinsic value, rather than linger around like a foul odour, engaging in worthless puerile name calling. The man is dead, so he CANNOT make choices that effect the present, living affairs. I have YET to meet someone without some Dirt on his or her hands. I don't give a FUCK. I haven't the time for the BULLSHIT. If opening one's mouth has no substance worthy of attention, then the ONLY thing that comes out - says MORE about the one talking, than it does about the one being talked about, no matter WHAT is said. Therefore it is perhaps advisable in such cases, to SAVE FACE ...by keeping the lower portion of it SHUT.

He killed a person,so did your great grandpa or grandpa,get over it.

@@rabihbourji2069 How do you know what they found shocking? Arrogant prick

You're me one week ago.

@@epictetus9221 Because it was either 1) That he shot his wife because he couldn’t quite come to terms with his homosexuality yet, or 2) He was a heroin addict. It’s usually either one thing or the other that people who’ve never read him complain about. The point is that he’s human. There are a lot of things that are just bad if not worse that a lot of celebrities who are successful today do. I judge the art, not the artist. I’ve never met the man, he wasn’t a “friend” of mine, neither he nor me asked one another to lend them any money. I really don’t care.

@@MichaelWaisJr Yeah, but the OP isn't you. Or me.

he's an unexpected prophet.

He was known as a real lady killer.

Long Island and New York City. What's vague?

Well the movie was okay. But I mean, come on, did they really have to force-feed all that rap music in the DiCaprio movie that had NOTHING to do with the time period it was set in???

I think being the leading post-modernist author of fiction is to Philosopher what greatest dancer in the world is to being neighborhood boogie-board soloist.

@@AndrewStuartBrown you seem intellectual, congrats!

Look up Nick Land "Lemurian Time War", Deleuze "Societies of control". They directly reference Burroughs. Burroughs works are more modernist than post-modernist, see the first chapter of Deleuze's "A Thousand Plateaus", where the notion of cut-up seems to imply a supertextual dimension in which the cut up parts are unified. Also, Zizek is really on the border of post-modern thought; He is lacanian and hegelian. Although Lacan is a poststructuralist, his psychiatric views remain more in line with Freud's than postmodern psychologists. Hegel is the apotheosis of philosophical modernity.

I love that. You crack me up.

A lot to consider, in any event, gentlemen. Thanx for replies.

sartre

addiction is art, not science.

Addiction may influence certain forms of art but does not define it. Science, however, originates all form, encompassing art, influence, and addiction, thereby reducing insipid demonstrative comments as yours to phlegm.

Burroughs not only "saw" Apocalypse Now, he lived it. Not speaking figuratively here, either. See the subway muggings and other thievery that runs alll through "Junkie." As well as interstellar gunslinging and banditry in other books. The endgame of all crime is dystopic.

Kiki perry ...It's done on a tape recorder.... (No Software)...Just magnetic spools of tape that record sound via a Microphone...!! Which brings me to that joke...Secretary to her Boss.." Can i use your Dicta phone..." Boss says " No !...Use your finger like everyone else ". ... (old phones you dial a number )....

Naropa University :)

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Opiates changes the voice

I don't understand the significance of this perceived similarity.

@@OphiuchiChannel I did not know Kurt Vonnegut ever did opiates. I thought he didn’t like Burroughs’s writing. Are you sure you’re thinking of the same author who wrote “Slaughterhouse Five”?

@@OphiuchiChannel Getting old changes the voice too. So does talking into a fan and pretending you’re Darth Vader.

@@MichaelWaisJr Idk about Vonnegut was talking about Burroughs

Cezanne

I was thinking you can't teach someone something they haven't seen, or experienced. like teaching someone what rain is who never seen it or how wind can sweep you off your feet when you've never been anywhere. so you saying "you can't teach something they don't, you already know that's a no"

@@hawhawreally4966 An ancient concept, predating either Burroughs or Gysin by a couple thousand years at least.

Learning seems to involve hooking the new information onto something the person already knows, like hooking a fish.

Cezanne

Yeah, Same happened at the first showings of "Waiting for Godot" (The incredible sad funny Human play by Samuel Beckett) - sparking near riots in so-called 'civilized' audiences at the time..... - Here's a GREAT version of Waiting for Godot, gets better every time I see it! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n-CIaMd636-Wgnk.html

@@zetetick395 No riots at waiting for Godot. Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, Yes. Godot, no.

Battery Exhausted that's not irony mate

Well, old Will suggested it would be impossible to make a film from the book in this lecture. Since irony can be defined as "a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is often wryly amusing as a result." (Google) then the fact they did make a film from a book that Burroughs said you could not make a film from is a state of affairs or an event that seems deliberately contrary to what one expects and is wryly amusing as a result. So it is exactly irony.

Battery Exhausted you gotta be an American.

Well, I don't use the term 'gotta' my good fellow. You can check out my channel to discover my character.

"old Will" also talks to a student on this very tape who had seen the 1974 movie, so he was fully aware that it had been made, what is inferred by his speech is that it wouldn't work as a film, at least by his standards. so it's still not irony at all. cheers.