Comments on: Confusion’s Masterpiece

By: Michael J Groetzinger

Michael J Groetzinger — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:18:42 +0000

Gary Lee-Nova, your (seemingly) baseless rude comment to Graham Rae is jaw dropping in its
ignorance.
Graham gives Mr. Harris a very nice compliment, while managing to be charmingly self effacing
at the same time.
Your hostility is, as our Uncle Bill might well have said, “Nothing to the purpose.”

By: Adrien Clerc

Adrien Clerc — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:05:43 +0000

Very good piece, thanks a lot for sharing your views & experience on these books! I love the idea of the publisher as the first entity who produced the idea of cut & paste / cut-up in Burroughs’ work – the insider / the outsider’s here !

By: David macGowan

David macGowan — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:13:09 +0000

Harris does it again!!

By: Steve Finbow

Steve Finbow — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:30:29 +0000

Isn’t there supposed to be a novel called “Con” somewhere? I thought that was the one that rounded off the “trilogy”. And what is it about trilogies? Why do we have to have trilogies? I admire Oliver’s work, without him we’d be a poorer bunch…. Good stuff…

By: Gary Lee-Nova

Gary Lee-Nova — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 00:05:14 +0000

Add Comment – Okay, I will. Graham, what makes your head hurt and causes the shuddering is called alcohol poisoning. Dr. Harris’s head sparkles and gleams with lucid intelligence.

By: Graham Rae

Graham Rae — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 23:37:52 +0000

Superb and fascinating as ever. The amount of thought and research that has gone into this article makes my head hurt. I shudder to think what Oliver’s must be like!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:46:01 +0000

in or on the fact? the question of grammar is, of course, a question of sense…or its lack thereof…

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 06:17:22 +0000

First, there’s non-sense. Then, when you’re conscious about this immanent condition, you can come up with as many sense as anybody can find or as many sense an infinite non-sense will permit. (The construction of evidence, sometimes, depends in hiding the fact that though letters might be altered for literary purposes, they still remain clear, like a thousand other testimonies, as to the ravaging of the senses that a drug such as yagé produces). And Mr. Harris, there’s no question about it, is an expert in giving sense to all what in itself is senseless and therefore full of potential meanings like the ones he has just “discovered”

By: Gary Lee-Nova

Gary Lee-Nova — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:28:04 +0000

Again, we have more splendid pieces of outstanding, excellent scholarship from Professor Harris, all of it generously shared with us by Reality Studio.

So fortunate and so wonderful for us to have a brilliant scholar doing all of this deep-diving into the deep-time of the material.

The explication of relationships discovered between the early trilogy texts contain numerous, valuable insights. And so interesting that so many of the pivot points of the research are located in the letters.

I expect we’ll learn a tremendous amount more when Dr. Harris gets immersed in the material base of The Nova Trilogy – and all those letters.

Given the amount of excellent attention being given to the important earliest work of the dearly departed author, I’m beginning to regard Mr. Burroughs himself, as a CAT, a cool cat, if you like.

Years ago I learned that Dogs Have Masters but Cats Have Staff; even Cool Cats have staff.

By: johnny strike

johnny strike — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:33:14 +0000

i can not give enough praise to this depth and quality of work. bravo!