Comments on: An Encounter with William Burroughs at Alexander Trocchi’s Bookshop

By: Steve Polino

Steve Polino — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 00:17:55 +0000

Amazingly just what I expected. Anarchy has such an odd feeling today.

By: Vicky

Vicky — Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:56:07 +0000

I was around those people at that time and we were all very unwell and very abusive and unkind to ourselves and one another. They and many others are all dead now and the glorification of everyone’s drug use is quite sickening especially as our children and families suffered. William and Alex like the rest were addicts taken over by their disease of addiction. Addiction is a cunning enemy of life but there is hope it is called recovery – what a pity Alex and William were too bound up in their disease to experience it. But as poetic influences on the minds of the unwary and inexperienced a dangerous combination!

By: Graham Rae

Graham Rae — Thu, 06 May 2010 18:04:29 +0000

If ever you needed to score some heroin, that bookshop that day would have been the place…

By: robert s.

robert s. — Thu, 06 May 2010 17:22:22 +0000

Great memory to share. The best part for me was that “he wasn’t really meant to be in England
at that time.” What an interesting perspective;
as always.