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How do you feel about William S. Burroughs?

>> No.8236384

>memeoplasm

>> No.8236385

What has he done for me lately?

>> No.8236388

junky was ok. his automatic writing meme didn't make for very interesting writing.

>> No.8236395

Brilliant. His nova trilogy left a significant impact on my thinking.

>> No.8236425

>>8236395
I'm finishing Naked Lunch right now. Read it a few years and couldn't get into it because of the lingo. Read Junk and Queer, got used to it and holy shit, I love this book. Very much to starting the Nova trilogy soon, how would you compare it to Naked Lunch?

>> No.8236427

>>8236425
*very much looking forward to

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>>8236359
A personal hero of mine desu
fantastic writer and a truly interesting and individual human being

>> No.8236448
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8236448

>>8236436
same

>> No.8236459

>>8236448
>pic
where are the yage letters?

>> No.8236462

>>8236436
>A personal hero of mine desu
>fantastic writer and a truly interesting and individual human being
lmao, fuck off soda.

>> No.8236467

he's a fucking faggot

>> No.8236487

>>8236459
I decided it wasnt essential-essential when I was putting together the chart (and ran out of room)

I am sure I will go back and expand it at some point

>> No.8236490

>>8236487
cool
good chart btw

>> No.8236492

With my hands.

>> No.8236496

>>8236462
who the fuck is soda? some sorta trip?

>> No.8236499

>>8236492
>tfw caressing Allerton with your ghost fingers

>> No.8236516

>>8236496
he's a guy in this >>8236464 stupid chat

>> No.8236538

>>8236425
Stylistically it's quite similar to naked lunch, but it's also exceedingly more ambitious. Naked lunch is a prelude to nova's schizophrenic symphony. Enjoy.

>> No.8236598

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtvYU196Aj4

>> No.8236615

>>8236598
wtf, not available in my country
fucking GEMA
what the fuck

>> No.8237243

>>8236359
what a character!

>> No.8237266

>>8236359
Great writer. If only he could have managed his ambitions more efficiently he could have easily written a spiritual successor to Finnegans or Ulysses.

>> No.8237279

>>8237243
Kek

>> No.8237282

>>8237266
Exactly my opinion

>> No.8237289

>>8237279
>someone got my funny joke
a good feeling

>> No.8237523

>>8236359
Degenerate drug-addicted faggot who murdered his wife and sucks at writing.

>> No.8237532

>>8236359
>sharp carrion
>jissom
>carbonization

>> No.8237542

>>8236538
>schizophrenic symphony
scatterbrained, narcotics induced hallucination under the guise of profundity. He took this concept to paper and scissors. Reading too much into it.

>> No.8237562

>>8236359
Well, he's a writer.

t. Beckett

>> No.8237581

>>8237542
So you've never read his nova trilogy?

>> No.8237949

>>8236487
thank you for producing content for this board

>> No.8238301

>>8236388

Queer > Junky

>> No.8239173

>>8238301
they're not really comparable

>> No.8239309

Loved Junky, Queer was an interesting one too. Now, as for Naked Lunch, i don't really consider it a book, so to speak. It's an abstract concept, that just happen to resemble a book. Full of nightmare/dream imagery, symbolism and a feeling of things more than a coherent narrative. In any case, i enjoy opening it some days, a random chapter at a time, when i need a certain literary kick, so to speak, to kickstart a new prose project or to get into the proper state of mind for a paranoia fueled poetry.

The Nova trilogy was a bit too much for me, but none the less enjoyable