The Ticket That Exploded

[Benny Bunter]

Vibrate dead nitrous film streets

 

[Benny Bunter]

"Stand here - Turn around - Bend"

 

[Benny Bunter]

Pinball acuteness twisted shivering in metal - Metal birds buzzed off in blue light - Jissom cartwheels in glass and mirrors reflected masturbating afternoons

 

[Benny Bunter]

Start a tapeworm club and exchange body sound tapes.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Ali woke in a strange bed..

 

[Benny Bunter]

The dummy had a thin delicate face of green wax and long yellow fingernails

 

[Benny Bunter]

Ghost apes tear his insides apart

 

[Benny Bunter]

Never attempt to hold a position under massive counterattack - "Enemy advance we retreat"

 

[Benny Bunter]

Totally green troops in the area

 

[Mr. Tea]

This is some great stuff, @Benny Bunter. Could almost be out of a Burroughs novel or something.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Is that clear enough or shall i make it even clearer?

 

[Benny Bunter]

The board is a three-dimensional and essentially stupid pressure group relying on money, equipment information, files and the technical brains they have bought.

 

[Benny Bunter]

The pipes the pipes are calling

 

[Mr. Tea]

One bit that jumped out at me is this:

"Better than 'the real thing'? There is no real thing - Maya - Maya - it's all show business."

(p87 of the Penguin Modern Classics edition.)

Which I assume is a reference to the concept of 'maya' in Hinduism and Buddhism, meaning the 'illusion' or 'magic show' whereby the world as we subjectively experience it passes itself off as true reality, but for Burroughs of course it's also the name of his favourite pre-Colombian civilization of Mesoamerica.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Diarrhea exploded down his Scandinavia outhouse skin

 

[Benny Bunter]

One bit that jumped out at me is this:

"Better than 'the real thing'? There is no real thing - Maya - Maya - it's all show business."

(p87 of the Penguin Modern Classics edition.)

Which I assume is a reference to the concept of 'maya' in Hinduism and Buddhism, meaning the 'illusion' or 'magic show' whereby the world as we subjectively experience it passes itself off as true reality, but for Burroughs of course it's also the name of his favourite pre-Colombian civilization of Mesoamerica.

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[Benny Bunter]

So what is word? - Maya - Maya - Illusion - Rub out the word and the image track goes with it

 

[Benny Bunter]

One bit that jumped out at me is this:

"Better than 'the real thing'? There is no real thing - Maya - Maya - it's all show business."

(p87 of the Penguin Modern Classics edition.)

Which I assume is a reference to the concept of 'maya' in Hinduism and Buddhism, meaning the 'illusion' or 'magic show' whereby the world as we subjectively experience it passes itself off as true reality, but for Burroughs of course it's also the name of his favourite pre-Colombian civilization of Mesoamerica.

I think this is probably the heart of the book. I need to go back and read the 'mayan caper' that's in the soft machine to try and get my head round it though

 

[woops]

Anyone here read any Lawrence Durrell? He gets mentioned in that Burroughs lecture and sounds interesting

"Mr Laurence Durrell has led the way in developing a new form of writing with time and space shifts as we see events from different viewpoints and realize that so seen they are literally not the same events, and that the old concepts of time and reality are no longer valid."

@sufi is a fan. he was friends with Richard Aldington and blurbed his book A Dream in the Luxembourg.

 

[version]

I've been puzzling over what makes The Image so powerful since starting this. Flusser, in that interview I posted the other week, says the philosophy of images has a long history and most of it negative because there's a prejudice against the image in philosophy's Greek and Jewish tradition, the image is viewed as a copy, a simulation of thought, to be either forbidden to make or to be accepted with great distrust.

— Anselm Jappe, Guy Debord