/lit/ - Literature

Any stream online or something?

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

--William S. Burroughs

This is the quote that has been used in the title of the documentary.

>>2706681

I will look around. I'm watching it on SBS (Australian TV station)

Funny story, but I was in a bookstore with my friend and the director randomly asked us if we wanted to see his Burroughs documentary for free at a local screening.

I enjoyed it, though. Burroughs was a fuckin' bad ass, after all.

>>2706688

Still searching for a stream...

>>2706699
Netflix

recently read Naked Lunch, then watched it, then went on a kick listening to recordings of him reciting his writing. I want to read more of his work, but it's certainly a hard read. It got my imagination really moving at some points, had a certain rhythm, but it really got me thinking about the mind, and what it means to write.

I'm becoming a fan, but his work is seriously jumbled and hard to follow.

>>2706689

did you talk to the director afterwards?

I got about three pages into Naked Lunch once before having to sit down and let the dizziness subside. I'm trying again, though.

He was pretty original. I know that much.

> author + gun

Everyone thinks of Hunter S Thompson .

>WS Burroughs

Used to sleep with a loaded gun in a holster under the pillow. His house was filled with guns.

>>2706739

That's because he was a crypto-Republican.

>>2706741

He was a very unwilling "supporter" of the gay rights movement.

If he was around today I doubt he'd be supporting Obama. Having said that, much of his persona seems to be about upsetting the status quo rather than genuine political affiliation.

His fascination with guns is probably one of his few well-known genuine personality traits.

>>2706759

I think he'd be a Ron Paulie...

>>2706741
Leftists have their reasons for wanting gun rights too.
I like to think they are more inclined to respect and protect the pacifists in their ranks.

Do you think he got out of the whole shooting-his-wife thing a bit too easily?

>no jail time

>no public reaction

I mean, look at the backlash after Chris Brown after beating Rhianna.

Can you imagine a published author in >2012 getting any leniency on a past transgression of that significance?

>>2706772

:YES.

leftist gun fan reporting in.

I think it has less to do with them being writers as it does that they're American. Aside from Orwell, never seen that quote before though. Eisenstein bees?

>>2706785
Ohh.. I hope I'm not misquoting


(Heyyyyy. Now I see the stupid antenna's. Damn updates)

>>2706781
Yo. Be safe. //_^\ V,,

>>2706777

It was in Mexico.

He wasn't famous then.

It was in MEXICO

"Shoot the bitch and write a book! That's what I did."

If you, as an American, hate guns and you're left of the democratic party then you're digging your own grave.

>>2706869
That makes no sense. I don't think you understand.

See, the revolutions for democracy and freedoms etc. often times have to be forced by the people in a popular revolt. Egypt is a notable exception, but even their success may be premature at this point. Now if the Syrians had surprised the regime with a full on armed assault, they may have had a better outcome at this point. Instead of all these massacres.

>>2707169
It makes sense. Non-violence sounds nice on paper, but police repression plus the establishment's ability to frame the narrative can pretty much stomp that out immediately.

The political discourse is so far to the right and continuing to drift in that direction each year. The politically active democrats do nothing to stem that, either. Look at what happened with Walker in Wisconsin or the prolonged Wall Street deepthroating that is the Obama administration.

I'm not talking about insurrectionist anarchism or anything nutty like that, but you need a way to defend yourself from the rest of the armed nutbags, and at least have a way to make the creeping police state we're developing think twice.

Greetings, fellow Johnsons!

just finished the word virus collection after avoiding wsb for half a decade (lumped him into the beatfags unjustifiably. ). cringed for all 120mins of that doc thinking fucking BONO was going to be interviewed, the twat. anyways, Ive found a kindred spirit in the man

>>2706683
Revolver (feat, Jason staham, yes, I know, but--) is a really odd take on the gambler/prison/organized crime film, and deals with this parasitic being of interminable internal monologue; the product of the director's preoccupation with Kabbala. cult film material, esp with it's dismal box office performance.

>>2706714
the automatic writing type material has to read at the speed of thought, as fast a you can, no mulling over associations,. Hope this helps your enjoyment of the less straightforward stuff of his