Comments on: Cursed from Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr. https://realitystudio.org A William S. Burroughs Community Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:20:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: AL https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-937667 Sat, 02 Aug 2025 05:20:09 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-937667 Hey if you knew Billy will you email me ? justiciadevivienda@gmail.com

]]> By: Supreme Cryer https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-934871 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:07:29 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-934871 hemorrhaging from cirrhosis of the liver (his second one) by the age of 35.

He died at the age of 33

]]> By: Supreme Cryer https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-934870 Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:03:33 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-934870 “and complimented by numerous interviews with people who knew him”

I think you mean complemented.

]]> By: Taylor Streit https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-933143 Fri, 02 Feb 2024 23:33:10 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-933143 he was staying with acid prof art kleps in san cristobal nm circa 1970 and walk the several miles to visit me at New Buffalo Commune
he say hi–a handfull or words and then turn around and walk back the several miles
we were not close… but then i saw the book Speed and got it
taylor streit

]]> By: Jake https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-930596 Wed, 26 Jul 2023 04:04:11 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-930596 I don’t feel all that sorry for him. He was born with alot of privilege and squandered it.

]]> By: Arthur Gottschalk https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-928237 Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:19:39 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-928237 I knew Billy while growing up in Florida, and also met his grand parents. I especially remember when he returned from Tangier and complained that his father tried to get him to have sex with Bill’s older friends, which Billy resented. I only saw him occasionally after that, most memorably when he showed up at my house during a wild LSD party. But all that was a long time ago.

]]> By: Barohn https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-927857 Tue, 22 Nov 2022 03:39:08 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-927857 I’ve just ‘read’ the book, ‘William Burroughs a Life’ by Barry Miles.
As far as his son is concerned, he never had a chance… his mother was a perpetual druggie, even while pregnant with him and an incurable alcoholic – an individual no-one would want to be cursed with as a mother. In fact after he was born, William Burroughs Jnr suffered severe withdrawal symptoms. The father, was not much better, and yet is lauded as a literary great – what a joke! He was nothing more than a narcissistic dilettante who wrote essentially about his depraved and selfish life. What a pity he wasn’t more honourable for the sake of everyone around him!
The book was so nauseating, I didn’t complete it but threw it on the ground far away from me! …but at least the sun was shining and I improved my tan!

]]> By: Greg https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-902140 Sun, 12 Sep 2021 02:16:43 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-902140 I was a hapless bystander child of 10 or so when I had the misfortune to be at Green Valley “School” with Billy. I saw him cutting apart a living soft shell turtle next to a pond. Dissecting it alive. Shell off, watching its living organs.

I was not impressed. I’m glad he is dead. I hope he rots in hell.

]]> By: Anthony Mondal https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-892096 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 11:49:24 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-892096 I absolutely love Billy Burroughs sparse writing style and have read and reread his novel Speed over thousands of times and maybe even more. I still continue to read parts that I like/love etc. I find his laconic writing style superior to Burroughs sr.

]]> By: DENNIS WILLIAMS https://realitystudio.org/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/comment-page-1/#comment-868483 Wed, 28 Oct 2020 19:38:01 +0000 http://pornosec.com/criticism/cursed-from-birth-reviewed-by-tom-bowden/#comment-868483 I was a friend of Peter stafford in Santa Cruz california meet william Burroughs back in santa cruz in 1976 he was always drunk doing drugs but still a beautiful person, only hope he is in heaven with Peter Stafford

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