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Letter to Lucien and Cessa Carr from Kerouac's time in Tangier:

http://theendofbeing.com/2010/03/25/bur ... k-kerouac/

That's fucking excellent. Imagine meeting Burroughs in Tangier at that time. You'd have run a mile in the opposite direction!

people have been running from burroughs since day one. thankfully jack was not one of them, or we wouldn't have that very funny letter.

Or Naked Lunch, more specifically the title, though Kerouac did, of course, help arrange it and type it up. Funny how the Burroughs in that letter - Ugly American imperialist trash abroad - resonates so perfectly with the material in Naked Lunch about AJ and trashing restaurants and whatnot. Wonder how much of that stuff was straight transcription of what was in his head at the time, about what he'd like to do to Tangier high society, or was doing. I'd love to see more letters like this from that time describing WSB in Tangier and his behaviour. Very revealing, cos he comes across as a mad, annoying, grandstanding, attention-seeking prick in that letter. Which is fine. And 'His message is all scatalogical homosexual super-violent madness' is still a pretty accurate description of Naked Lunch to this day.

What sort of knife is WSB wielding in the first photo (if it's a knife at all)?

Those photo are not from Tangier but from four years earlier in late 1953 at Allen Ginsberg's apartment in the Lower East Side. Burroughs had just returned from his Yage trips in South America and was forced to leave Mexico after his lawyer shot and killed someone in a traffic altercation. The book begin edited in 1953 was The Yage Letters and Queer.

I would suspect that the knife came from South America and that Burroughs brought it back with him.

The pictures with Kerouac from Tangier in 1957 are the ones with Burroughs on the beach in his suit.

http://www.allenginsberg.org/index.php? ... hs-tangier

Hm, did Burroughs' voice "undergo some awful sorta sea change" at that time? Did he speak differently before this? Was this the moment in which Burroughs CREATED his persona?

nope. it was a life lasting thing i guess.

but tangier times.. were great i suppose. interzone.. all types of drugs were legal, at least easy to get..
kiki... he had great sex i guess and a good relation/friendship with him.. and homosexuality was accepted by society in marocco back in that time.


marvellous playground for sevard.

...and edgy... with random drugs and consumption.

wasn`t the time in tangier his "el hombre invisible" style ??

he was young, great looking.. and his lust for adventure..like always, but here again real saticsfied i would say.

and all da stories about mop, selfjustice by the citizens.. every day.. every night, lol.

i doubt that this knife is from s.a. . he collected them anyways. looks like a ritual knife or maroccan knife to me men wear under the belt.

I like this line: His message is all scatalogical homosexual super-violent madness