https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:26:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-top-23-most-interesting-burroughs-collectibles/17-aspen-56/comment-page-1/#comment-741124 Sun, 27 Dec 2015 21:26:23 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3161#comment-741124 A beautiful take, Jed, and spot on. I never saw any Aspen until an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London a few years back. All I could see (and smell) was “Art”. And didn’t it want to tell you that, with the telling more important than the tale. What rubbed their bollox status in for me, and I think I am right in this, was that they lost their “Reduced Postage Rate Licence” as Printed Matter not because of the content (sending obscene mail through post) but the structure (it’s a box not a book).
But enough of this, I want to take your opening image sequence further …we are all ringside… it is a fight , Bill is in the black corner, Foucault in the other… Foucault is fucked of course even with Bataille as his second and Sartre as trainer… Bill’s second is Genet – you couldn’t find a meaner bastard with the essential prison skills in any other corner – Bill’s trainer? …. he needs none.

]]> https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-top-23-most-interesting-burroughs-collectibles/17-aspen-56/comment-page-1/#comment-740799 Mon, 21 Dec 2015 19:14:59 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3161#comment-740799 Your observations about Burroughs exploring the death of the author avant la lettre seem right on the money. I also enjoyed your vision of a Burroughs biopic. The French will never stop aspiring to our impossible American cool. BTW Corso’s “Bomb” is fantastic even though he’s a minor leaguer.

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