On a Burroughs tip, The Adding Machine (collected essays) is great.
A friend advised me to read the cut up segments out loud or at the very least imagine then in Burroughs' voice. That does something to them. They become a kind of gestalt, which isn't always obvious when you're reading them on the page.
A friend advised me to read the cut up segments out loud or at the very least imagine then in Burroughs' voice. That does something to them. They become a kind of gestalt, which isn't always obvious when you're reading them on the page.