The discipline of DE (Do Easy) An Essay by William S.
All right, buckle up. Ginsberg and Kerouac were both a little out there. But now it's time for the real crazy train: William Burroughs. William was the son of a wealthy Chicago couple. He was a Harvard graduate, a European vagabond, an army reject, and of seriously questionable mental stability. He even cut off the tip of his left pinky down to.
Read much more about Burroughs' theory and practice in Matthew Levi Stevens’ essay “The Magical Universe of William S. Burroughs,” and hear the author himself discourse on the paranormal, tape cut-ups, and much more in the lecture below from a writing class he gave in June, 1986.
William Burroughs: The Pusher and The Pimp. Picture if you will, two street corners in a crime-riddled vicinity. On one corner stands a Pimp with several of his? employees? exhibiting about. On the other corner stands a Junk trader selling his merchandise. Both work forces frown upon each other for the other? s business. Small do they know they.
William S. Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 to Mortimer Perry Burroughs and Laura Hammon Lee in St Louis, Missouri, United States. He was the youngest son of the couple. While his father was an antique and gift shop owner, his mother came from a prestigious family and was daughter of a minister. Academically, he first attended John Burroughs School, later on moving to Los Alamos Ranch.
William S. Burroughs: A century ago St. Louis gave birth to the wildest Beat writer of them all A writer, thought the young Burroughs, was rich and famous and possessed a powerful appetite for.
John Burroughs’ Essays. John Burroughs’ Essays. There is a certain class of literature—essentially a product of the last half-century—whose chief exponents have been not inaptly designated as our “poet-naturalists.” Since the time when old Gilbert White of Selborne devoted himself to the duty of observing and chronicling, in his homely and prosaic fashion, the fauna and flora of.
Brent Wood. William S. Burroughs and the Language of Cyberpunk. The work of William S. Burroughs has often been credited as a primary influence on cyberpunk writing. The connection between the two, however, is more often cited than explained. Burroughs' “science-fiction” work Nova Express, The Soft Machine, and The Ticket That Exploded, 1964-1967) was more experimental poetry than.