tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post7510172767971771750..comments2023-10-21T11:46:32.529+01:00Comments on Madame Arcati: William S Burroughs: 'Anybody good at anything uses ESP'Madame Arcatihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-14495324432896008432009-07-11T14:47:13.140+01:002009-07-11T14:47:13.140+01:00... But censorship believes in you. ;-)... But censorship believes in you. ;-)Duralexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-28782466785118463942009-07-11T14:35:24.938+01:002009-07-11T14:35:24.938+01:00Oh no, I don't believe in censorship ...Oh no, I don't believe in censorship ...Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-39648624010547534402009-07-11T14:34:27.458+01:002009-07-11T14:34:27.458+01:00Ooops, IS broke, of course. You're allowed to ...Ooops, IS broke, of course. You're allowed to publish my comment without the typo. :-)Duralexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-66532190553113510412009-07-11T14:31:25.948+01:002009-07-11T14:31:25.948+01:00I very much doubt someone like Martin Amis id brok...I very much doubt someone like Martin Amis id broke...Duralexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-29974239574621862362009-07-11T14:01:43.622+01:002009-07-11T14:01:43.622+01:00So often the case with novelists, broke.So often the case with novelists, broke.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-35727195279612200572009-07-11T14:00:16.592+01:002009-07-11T14:00:16.592+01:00I can't say I was a friend Of Burrough's M...I can't say I was a friend Of Burrough's Madame A. but he was friends with a group of us who would go to the Ninth Circle in the Village but he always had a nice young lad in tow, most who seemed to be new in town, wide-eyed and innocent.<br /><br />Never met him in London but as the Ninth Circle would have given Picaddilly Circus a run for it's money I'm quite sure he would have gravitated there.<br /><br />Mind you, from what I heard he was perpetually broke and lived off the kindness of friends.veritasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-18272685376226774212009-07-11T13:06:24.622+01:002009-07-11T13:06:24.622+01:00Duncan Fallowell's account of his visit to Wil...Duncan Fallowell's account of his visit to William Burroughs in Kansas is printed in the Penguin Book of Interviews (edited by Christopher Silvester). In it, re the Burroughs period in London, Fallowell asked him 'Did you use the Piccadilly boys?' and Burroughs replied 'Certainly. Who wouldn't?'A Gossip Columnistnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-490613206391770592009-07-11T13:00:20.605+01:002009-07-11T13:00:20.605+01:00Oh and Veritas, did Burroughs ever talk about magi...Oh and Veritas, did Burroughs ever talk about magic with you? It's important we focus on this aspect of his thinking before the atheists claim him as their godless messiah ....<br /><br />You know how fundamentalist atheists are.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-19518011055115242882009-07-11T12:57:01.968+01:002009-07-11T12:57:01.968+01:00Perhaps I should do an astrological analysis of th...Perhaps I should do an astrological analysis of these druge-fuelled modernists. I'm not interested in merely taking their work as presented.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-49285257782618744382009-07-11T12:54:00.934+01:002009-07-11T12:54:00.934+01:00Dear Veritas, is it true Burroughs used to collect...Dear Veritas, is it true Burroughs used to collect boys around Piccadilly Circus? Ican't imagine what he did with these waifs and strays (most of them future lawyers most probably).<br /><br />Dear Farah (!) I told you I was on the BBC World Service (talking about newspaper phone taps and the like) and then I had to go to bed. When you reach my age the wonder is that one can get up in the morning let alone disrobe for sleep.<br /><br />Dear Anon, I don't care for any of Cronenberg's films but I'll have a listen again to the soundtrack.Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-38571236448521781482009-07-11T12:52:29.148+01:002009-07-11T12:52:29.148+01:00I can recommend the film Gonzo just out on DVD - a...I can recommend the film Gonzo just out on DVD - about another wonderful wild weirdo intellectual, Hunter Thompson.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-80655235089624158082009-07-11T10:51:51.961+01:002009-07-11T10:51:51.961+01:00David Cronenberg's film of Naked Lunch has a f...David Cronenberg's film of Naked Lunch has a fabulous soundtrack from Ornette ColemanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-22929189979645016022009-07-11T09:50:30.867+01:002009-07-11T09:50:30.867+01:00An evolved sub-editor grows up to become a section...An evolved sub-editor grows up to become a section editor at no-News un-International. Really hating on them at the moment. <br />Can't believe you left me hi-and-dry last night. You wicked teasing old tart Darling MA.http://try-me-the-book.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-53278890027384362082009-07-11T08:19:54.423+01:002009-07-11T08:19:54.423+01:00how topical!
A piece by US forensic psychiatrist ...how topical!<br /><br />A piece by US forensic psychiatrist Robert M. Kaplan in a Murdoch newspaper titled "A talent for lies and abuse" rips into Michael Jackson and apart from making the odd claim that Jacko was<br />" perpetuating a lie of such magnitude that only Joseph Goebbels would have approved" concludes Jackson was "living a lifestyle that would have nauseated even William S.Burroughs"<br /><br />Kaplan, author of Medical Murder: Disturbing Cases of Doctors Who Kill. (from personal experience ?)must never have met Burroughs as I did in New York in the 1980's. <br /><br />He took up with a young friend of mine and said "I think I'll add him to my collection of twinkies", an act Jackson would surely have approved of.<br /><br />But perhaps it was a different Burroughs.veritasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-39966007762706710612009-07-10T23:27:58.991+01:002009-07-10T23:27:58.991+01:00Always a pleasure, Duncan. You should have your ow...Always a pleasure, Duncan. You should have your own magazine and it should be called Fallowell's. Has a ring to it. I'm sure Arcatistes will agree. I plant this thought-seed in the rich humus of this blog.<br /><br />As for sub-editors, they are not long for this world. Their ruthless envy of practising writers has brought nothing but woe to the periodicals that deludedly employ them. They do nothing but think up fiendish ways of sabotaging written works. I hate to think of what they will become in the next world. Slippery ice puddles?Madame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-39926080330034814332009-07-10T22:25:51.413+01:002009-07-10T22:25:51.413+01:00Thank-you for flagging my article, Madame. It give...Thank-you for flagging my article, Madame. It gives me a chance to say that I did not describe the Sergeant Pepper cover as a work of genius but the album itself. A copy editor chose to present it otherwise. Insubordinate copy editors have given me more anguish than all my lovers put together. They should be shafted, shot and fed to hyaenas.<br /><br />with best wishes, Duncan FallowellDRFnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-52123895715875949332009-07-10T21:58:59.379+01:002009-07-10T21:58:59.379+01:00Talking arsehole? Deja vu. Diderot published "...Talking arsehole? Deja vu. Diderot published "Les Bijoux indiscrets" in 1748.<br /><br /> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Indiscreet_JewelsDuralexnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-38357083589543454852009-07-10T21:55:13.084+01:002009-07-10T21:55:13.084+01:00Yeah, Burroughs said it would simplify matters to ...Yeah, Burroughs said it would simplify matters to have one all-purpose hole that did everything. Shit, talk, eat, take cock etc. What a genius.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-2467634307505737212009-07-10T21:38:57.679+01:002009-07-10T21:38:57.679+01:00No wonder you remember the talking arsehole. You&#...No wonder you remember the talking arsehole. You've modelled yourself on this.B Hyndenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-56555662304296723102009-07-10T21:33:14.067+01:002009-07-10T21:33:14.067+01:00I swear you make these things up.I swear you make these things up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-74426447271536635682009-07-10T21:29:51.592+01:002009-07-10T21:29:51.592+01:00Atheism is just a passing faith. An infantile delu...Atheism is just a passing faith. An infantile delusion. xMadame Arcatihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04823823014493798116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30643113.post-69759699487595017432009-07-10T21:21:32.452+01:002009-07-10T21:21:32.452+01:00If Burroughs believed in the afterlife that proves...If Burroughs believed in the afterlife that proves it's an hallucination.Definitely Maybenoreply@blogger.com