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I saw an old Spanish translation of nova express in a second hand book shop a while back (in the pulp sci-fi section appropriately enough) should have bought it. How would you go about translating something like that?
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"Blah blah blah, sabor metállico de los ejaculaciónes de los adolescentes del Venús, blah blah blah", piece of piss if you ask me.
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Every time I meet William Burroughs, I feel I'm in the presence of a feisty corpse. As a living person he seems rather bored. I asked him if he would go to the moon. "Of course," he replied. "I'd go anywhere; I'd leave the solar system if they came to get me in a flying saucer." "Even if there is no coming back?" I asked. He looked at me. "Why come back?"
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— Sylvère Lotringer
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Is that an issue of Guns And Ammo?
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Thomas Brinkmann - Cheap ( narration by W. S. Burroughs )
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William S. Burroughs exhibition at the October Gallery, London | Brion Gysin
William S. Burroughs exhibition at the October Gallery, London - quotes and photos.
www.briongysin.com
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Bit underwhelming this one. A few cool ideas, but feels like he's running on fumes. I'm only 74 pages in though. Maybe it'll pick up. I like the stuff about the door dogs that get put on you like a hit and follow you as a marker you're about to die.
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Remarkable he didn't, considering the life he had.
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Halfway through now and getting more out of it. The chapter where it goes all Conrad and a group goes on an expedition to study giant centipedes is really good. I thought I'd become desensitised to the nastiness in his books, but some of the cults and sacrifices are really unpleasant. There's this image someone finds on an ancient piece of parchment of a giant centipede clambering atop a restrained man that's just horrifying, particularly when a couple of characters manage to infiltrate an actual instance of the ritual and he describes the thing coming skittering out into the arena.
I don't particularly like centipedes, but I don't have some sort of pronounced fear of them either. It's impressive how frightening he manages to make them, really gets his phobia across to the reader. There's a great bit where he talks about staying in some hut with a giant spider and being woken up by it being locked in mortal combat with a giant centipede and them all cheering on their friend, 'Arachnid'.
I don't particularly like centipedes, but I don't have some sort of pronounced fear of them either. It's impressive how frightening he manages to make them, really gets his phobia across to the reader. There's a great bit where he talks about staying in some hut with a giant spider and being woken up by it being locked in mortal combat with a giant centipede and them all cheering on their friend, 'Arachnid'.
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He's got this absolute obsession with the workings of the human body. There's so much on various poisons and practices and what they do to the nervous system, the brain, the blood. I can picture him looking at people and just seeing all the pathways in their body the way Neo looks at The Matrix and sees lines of code.