I just can’t do it. And yes part of it is the Nike thing. But part of it is Burroughs happiness in getting into the Academy of Arts and Letters. Part of its his last words. And a big part is how his later works were published and promoted. In short Burroughs went commercial, he went bureaucratic and institutionalized, he went soft philosophically and he went corporate. This is a turning away from his Golden years which had little to do with his published novels of the 1957-1965 period and everything to do with his Mimeo Revolution appearances in those years not just the work itself but how it was published and the philosophy behind that publication.

As for Dylan he is great and I like parts of his work the whole career but he played a role from the beginning. He played the folkie he played the poet he played C&W he played singer songwriter he played the gospel etc etc. Dylan was with Columbia from the start. He was always Judas.