the WILLIAM SEWARD BURROUGHS thread

[version]

one of the things i can do is it can create a kind of equal emphasis between words. it depends how you use it. but you can kind of democraticse the sentence or something so that words just flash in their own space, all equally bright

I've eaten like shit today crisps chocolate tiger bread apples satsumas.

 

[entertainment]

i was reading kirkegaard in the sun the other day and was struck by how illeterate i am compared to someone like him. the way his sentences work, how much information they carry, how many dimensions he works across in one sentence. you can feel how the lingual sophistication opens up for more advanced thinking. the language developing the intelligence.

 

[luka]

A passion for Denmark.

 

[version]

the terms of communication are coming to be defined by the image.

language adapts to survive as text-images

The last word/s of one version of The Ticket That Exploded are "good-bye" then it cuts to silence in the form of some calligraphy/artwork of Gysin's Burroughs called "terminal writing."

After all the lyrics and melodies in The Ticket, all the "vaudeville voices," "riot noises," "sounds of love-making," "City sounds," "jungle sounds," "crackling static," and "sound of feedback," the composite formed by print and script ends the most musical book of the Cut-Up Trilogy on a soundless note. The book silences the noisy lusts of life, stops the fairground circus that stupidly spins us round and around, and takes its leave with an open-ended vision of an elsewhere. A book of paradoxes - cynical yet elegiac, polemical but poetic, obscene and spiritual - The Ticket ends by visualizing silence, a vital space beyond words, "where the unknown past and the emergent future meet in a vibrating soundless hum."

 

[entertainment]

The last word/s of one version of The Ticket That Exploded are "good-bye" then it cuts to silence in the form of some calligraphy/artwork of Gysin's Burroughs called "terminal writing".

Interesting

 

[Mr. Tea]

No commas takes parataxis to the next level:

I came, I saw, I conquered

VENI VIDI VICI

I CAME I SAW I CONQUERED

The virgin comma-user versus the chad parataxis enjoyer.

 

[entertainment]

all reading basically carries an implication of quaintness now because you can't help but sense that the format of information is going out of currency.

 

[luka]

particularly if you use commas

 

[Mr. Tea]

I picked up a copy of gravity's rainbow in a used bookshop the other day but I can't be arsed to start reading it yet.

Just ensure it's displayed prominently on your bookshelf to show how clever and erudite you are. That's basically what it's for.

 

[Benny Bunter]

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That's why I like to do screenshots of poems or whatever to share, no one wants to read copy and pasted text

No idea why people are laughing at this post, it's true. Screenshots/photos are infinitely more sexy. Imagine if I'd C+p'd this:

 

[luka]

even more so on here cos it wont let you format anything.

 

[Benny Bunter]

You need to print up your new stuff then photograph it/screenshot it or no-one will be able to read it properly

 

[luka]

yeah i cant be fucked though. i dont even have a camera anymore.

 

[version]

No idea why people are laughing at this post, it's true.

I laughed because I copy + paste loads of text and thought if I just put an angry face you might think I was genuinely angry.

 

[version]

Vowels​

by Arthur Rimbaud
Black A, white E, red I, green U, blue O - vowels,
Some day I will open your silent pregnancies:
A, black belt, hairy with burst flies,
Bumbling and buzzing over stinking cruelties,

Pits of night; E, candour of sand pavilions,
High glacial spears, white kings, trembling Queen
Anne's lace;
I, bloody spittle, laughter dribbling from a face
In wild denial or in anger, vermilions;

U,…divine movement of viridian seas,
Peace of pastures animal-strewn, peace of calm lines
Drawn on foreheads worn with heavy alchemies;

O, supreme Trumpet, harsh with strange stridencies,
Silences traced in angels and astral designs:
O…Omega…the violet light of His Eyes!

 

[Benny Bunter]

That's more like it! Not a particularly good piece of work but at least I can read it.

 

[version]

It's from Minutes to Go. It's quoted in that BATTLE INSTRUCTIONS review.

 

[version]

“STAND ASIDE MR BURROUGHS OF SPACE AND LISTEN TO THE LORD OF TIME.”

 

[Benny Bunter]

I was reading minutes to go earlier today actually. Some really good bits in there, but the stuff in Nova Express is more refined and all the better for it.

 

[Benny Bunter]

I liked the open letter to Life magazine and that one about viruses I posted earlier