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Tag Archives: William S Burroughs
Beat Cops (the Pilot)
Introduction to a Poem Requested by a Dear Friend. Please note: dear friend is somewhat of an ambiguous phrase, which should not be misconstrued to mean that I have anything against any deer, elk, moose, springbok, or other non-horse, leaping, … Continue reading
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Tagged cut-up novels, humor, stream of consciousness, surrealism, William S Burroughs
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Moving Rocky to Balboa
About 10 years ago, I was fascinated with both stream-of-consciousness and cut-up, randomized writing. In that fertile stream bed, fueled by endless coffee cups and unfiltered cigarettes, I lay for a period of about two straight years. There was something … Continue reading
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Tagged cut-up novels, Henry Miller, stream of consciousness, William S Burroughs
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Slicing the Apple
So undone by wishing, though its hiding shore, I saw No there are work for whom has love, so doing one should not a madman’s fate! As to find it all of the Most men come across my are a … Continue reading
Dances with Whales, Winces with Dulls
At one time in my life, I experimented with writing my own cut-up novel. Heavily into Keroauc, Ginsberg and Burroughs at the time, heavily into mind-altering additives of several varieties, spending late nights in cafes discussing Gertrude Stein and Pound’s … Continue reading
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Tagged cut-up novels, Dada, excerpts, Jack Keroauc, William S Burroughs
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