The Ticket That Exploded

[Benny Bunter]

If you don't join in on this you're not a proper dissensian, like if you don't like hardcore rave or instant noodles.

I haven't started it yet but I read the intro essay to the penguin modern classics restored edition and (appealing to the dissensus dudes here) I'm feeling pretty "stoked."

In anticipation I'll start with a couple of tunes because it's said that Ticket is the most musical of WSB's cut-up (or fold-in) novels. Perhaps their significance will become apparent as we read on...

The working title of the book was "Johnny's So Long At The Fair"



And this needs no introduction. Here comes Johnny Yen again with the liquor and drugs and the flesh machine.

 

[luka]

i thought id given my copy away but i must have had two cos ive still got one on the shelf

 

[Benny Bunter]

Have you got the penguin one with the Oliver Harris introduction essay and all the notes? The essays really good

 

[Benny Bunter]

We're all gonna read the Ticket that Exploded by the venerable William Seward Burroughs soon, so dig your copy out or get on Amazon

@kid charlemagne @luka @WashYourHands @IdleRich @Mr. Tea @craner @william_kent @Corpsey @jenks @woops @version @sufi @entertainment @linebaugh @sus

apologies to anyone I left out

@mvuent @yyaldrin @Clinamenic

 

[Benny Bunter]

@sufi

 

[Benny Bunter]

I'm gonna hold off starting it for a week or two but I'm champing at the bit

 

[luka]

Have you got the penguin one with the Oliver Harris introduction essay and all the notes? The essays really good

doubt it

 

[Benny Bunter]

No matter, you've already read it. Here's your chance to shine.

 

[sufi]

@sufi

not sure i can commit

 

[sufi]

not sure i can commit

... to suffering all that incoherent guff, nevertheless

 

[Benny Bunter]

That's the spirit!

 

[william_kent]

It is a long trip. We are the only riders.

 

[william_kent]

I'm gonna hold off starting it for a week or two but I'm champing at the bit

... page fading away Time September - (a number not clear)

 

[william_kent]

Death is orgasm is rebirth is death in orgasm is their unsanitary Venusin gimmick is the whole birth death cycle of action - You got it? - Now do you understand who Johnny Yen is?



Cabaret Voltaire - Johnny YesNo Taxi Music Dub

 

[IdleRich]

What kind of a stupid name is Oliver Harris?

 

[Benny Bunter]

It's hard not to read Burroughs as a warning call, one that we never listened to, and now it's probably much too late to do anything about it. A bit like Orwell or Huxley or Ballard, but even more profound and prescient, and less understood than them because of the obvious difficulties in reading him.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Johnny Yen

Johnny - both a condom and what goes inside it

Yen - to yearn for it

Here comes Johnny Yen again.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Ticket - an image of hidden determinism that invokes the insides of music machines, like the punch cards in an old fairground organ or the perforated rolls of a player piano.

 

[Mr. Tea]

What kind of a stupid name is Oliver Harris?

Years ago I remember my mum half-seriously asking me if I was an authority on William S. Burroughs after seeing this guy's books on Amazon.

 

[luka]