/lit/ - Literature

Hey anon, put that glass on your head and stay still for a sec

Where do I begin with him? I'm interested in his ideas about control and word virus. I read Naked Lunch when I was in college but didn't get much out of it. Does anyone have a flowchart?

>>16213974
Too bad he didn't have a more literary career. It could have helped!

Why did he do it, guys?

Maybe I live under a rock but is there in 2018 any writer who just doesn't give a fuck about anything like the beats, or more specifically like Burroughs?
With 'writers who don't give a fuck about anything' I mean something like not caring about violence, law, drugs, obscenity.
Where are they /lit/?
I'm in desperate need of something raw, violent, obscene, in the 21st century

Surprised nobody has posted yet.

What does /lit/ think of Burroughs? Iconoclast, or decadent? Is Burroughs for pseuds, in your mind?

*shoots u*
pssh...nothing personal, wife

>>9919674
I think he was either a very good shot or a very bad shot

I learned recently that William S Burroughs used to send or Christmas cards every year. Pretty cute.

Consciousness is a virus

Can we get a thread on /fringe/ intellectuals/philosophers/thinkers? I'm looking for works that are controversial, politically subversive, occultist, mystical, or just plain wacky. Wanna see how far down the rabbit hole I can go without resorting to Alex Jones-tier conspiratards or the literally insane.

So far my reading list includes Robert Anton Wilson, Wilhelm Reich, Carl Jung, Aliester Crowley, Nick Land, Arthur Koestler, and last but not least, WS Burroughs. Any other /fringe/ figures I should be reading? Fiction or non-fiction welcome.

>>7307808
Patricians of the world, there is one pleb you cannot beat: the pleb Inside.

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