https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Wed, 15 May 2024 14:10:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://realitystudio.org/bibliographic-bunker/the-visible-man-a-coffee-table-zine-of-photographs-of-william-s-burroughs/writing/comment-page-1/#comment-933946 Wed, 15 May 2024 14:10:42 +0000 https://realitystudio.org/?page_id=3834#comment-933946 Just read this.. I think Burroughs used what he learned from the cut ups in his later fiction, often to great effect. Its sparing application has the benefit of being readable in a conventional sense, while suggesting whole blocks of association, as in the chapter titles in Cities of the Red Night. I realise great swaths of that book are pretty pedestrian. At the same time, it contains some of his finest writing, and forms a great counter balance to the bleakness of Naked Lunch. So, great article Jed but I have to disagree about the prostituting his passion bit. I just don’t see it personally. (Although I have to say I tend to agree with most of what you have to say most of the time).

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