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1959125 No.1959125 [Reply] [Original]

Any Bull Lee fans in the building /

>> No.1959132

Yea man, I'm actually almost finished reading "The Soft Machine" right now.

>> No.1959134

Bullies are sinners

>> No.1959137

carbolic soap and rectal mucus

>> No.1959142

HOT SPURTS OF JISSOM

>> No.1959144

I like his work but only for the lulz, i don't consider him as a great writer.

>> No.1959152

He ain't the best, but there's worst shit out there like Chuck Palahniuk.

>> No.1959153

>>1959144

I think his writing is great when he writes "straight." By than I mean when he deviates from the cut-up technique. He can evoke some very strong images. The man had a great imagination.

>> No.1959164

>>1959153
>>1959153

I like more stuff like Naked Lunch when you don't understand shit of what he is writing.. I mean, i agree about the strong images, but those full of heroin

>> No.1959166

>>1959153
Being high 24/7 will do that to man.

>> No.1959167

Last night I read a joint interview conducted by Victor Bockris with Terry Southern and WSB.

Southern had been given a large bag of pharmaceuticals from a hipster doctor, and he has brought them for Burroughs to sort through, Drugstore Cowboy style.

No clue where it was first published----I read it in a posthumous collection of unpublished Terry Southern stuff.

>> No.1959170

>>1959152

I think that's shooting a little low; comparing Burroughs to Pahlaniuk.. That's like saying, "Hey, eating pizza's OK, but at least it's not human feces."

I guess that's being a little mean to Pahlaniuk.. I don't think he's that terrible.. For what he is at least...

>> No.1959171

>>1959167

Oh, and here it is, if you want to read it. WSB comes across as querulous and amusing. And quite obviously looking to score.

http://books.google.com/books?id=uDSFHa0TuTAC&pg=PA248&lpg=PA248&dq=victor+bockris+willi
am+s+burroughs+terry+southern&source=bl&ots=808JaTpWJ5&sig=TxsT42amqPHoDq10SisoYL1EMMw&a
mp;hl=en&ei=AkcuTpOYDsbv0gG36tnjAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ve
d=0CCgQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=victor%20bockris%20william%20s%20burroughs%20terry%20southern&f=fa
lse

>> No.1959182

>>1959164

Well yeah, I wasn't saying that I disliked the cut-up parts, I like when he deviates from it in the same book (ex. The Mayan Caper chapter in "The Soft Machine") . Sure I liked "Junky," but I preferred "Naked Lunch."

>> No.1959203

everyone wants to be burroughs after burroughs
he sucks because everyone sucks at being him

>> No.1959216

>>1959203
Maybe that just makes him a complete original?

>> No.1959221

>>1959216
original in that he chose to write

>> No.1959225

>>1959221
Yeah, nobody ever wrote a thing before Burroughs.

Good call.

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1959228

hey guys, what's up

>> No.1961782

Hes P. cool

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1961791

mfw Queer and Junky are better than Naked Lunch but no one ever reads them.

>> No.1961795

>>1961791
I read "Junky" and thought it was pretty good.