What would William Burroughs have thought of this newsgroup?

From: Artemia Salina <y2k@sheayright.com>

"Sub-Species No.23" wrote:
>
> I feel out of place here because I have no idea who William Burroughs is.

William S. Burroughs was a sci-fi author back in the mid 1800's. He's one
of those people who remain famous because what he wrote back in those days
was very shocking to Victorian society. But by today's standards he'd be
considered a purse-lipped, yardstick brandishing school marm. His most
notable work was called "The Naked Lunge", about a drug addicted astronaut
in the midst of confronting the fact of his homosexuality while on a
mission in outer space. The character's angst distracts him enough to
miscalculate the ship's angle of re-entry, which causes them to glance
off of the earth's atmosphere and into a time warp, wherein the crew winds
up traveling back in time to prehistoric earth. They are taken in by a tribe
of cave men, and the main character is soon elevated within the tribe to
the status of shaman, because the tribe believes that homosexuality is
a sign of supernatural powers.

William S. Burroughs is rumored to have been the homosexual lover of
another famous sci-fi author of the period, Marshal McLuhan, which adds
to his mystique.

HTH

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From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

You might add that he was the first author to use that annoying plot
gimmick where he writes himself into the script, like comic book
artists.

--
"Violence in the pursuit of Greed is no Sin."

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From: "whyaskwhyaskwhy" <blackout@PORKinfomagic.com>

"Sub-Species No.23" wrote
> I feel out of place here because I have no idea who William Burroughs is.

blame the american public school system for your total failure to know
something you should.

From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

Now that would be an easy subject to teach in just
about any school district: about a bisexual junkie
alcoholic murderer who wrote complex and bizarre shit.

They can't even teach Twain or Jefferson because what
they wrote is too controversial.

Remember the standard U.S. history text, with one
paragraph each to Washington and Lincoln, and five
pages to Marilyn Monroe?

Sanitized for your protection.

--
"Violence in the pursuit of Greed is no Sin."

From: "whyaskwhyaskwhy" <blackout@PORKinfomagic.com>

now that you mention it, how did I get ahold of Naked Lunch in 7th grade?

From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>

Just think, today if you wrote down any of a bunch of
passages in that book in your own hand, you would be
expelled and arrested for fear that you might do another
Columbine.

Gee, they would prolly give me electroshock if they caught
me reading some of what I read in the 7th grade--Nieztsche,
Nazi sadism bimbo porn, and Science Fiction Analog.

--
"Violence in the pursuit of Greed is no Sin."

From: "whyaskwhyaskwhy" <blackout@PORKinfomagic.com>

the PE teacher that confiscated Zap Comix #4 (Crumb's Joe Blow, S. Clay
Wilson's Star Eyed Stella) from me in 7th grade had a really interesting
look on his face when he flipped through it but for some reason decided not
to pursue the lecture on why looking at stuff like the 7 barbed tongue clit
lickers wasn't the proper way to stay the course

From: nu-monet <nothing@succeeds.com>
>
> the PE teacher that confiscated Zap Comix #4 (Crumb's Joe Blow,
> S. Clay Wilson's Star Eyed Stella) from me in 7th grade had a
> really interesting look on his face when he flipped through it
> but for some reason decided not to pursue the lecture on why
> looking at stuff like the 7 barbed tongue clit lickers wasn't
> the proper way to stay the course

1) Hash pipe that was the assistant band director's anyway, by
the assistant band director.

2) A few grams of metallic potassium from the chem lab, after
they started to react. The chem teacher could have them. He
was smart enough to use tongs.

3) A canteen full of vodka and o.j. that the security guard
and I split anyway.

4) A crackly-cold case of Michelob that the cop and I split
anyway. My friends really got shafted on that deal.

5) Several cans of chewing tobacco by an asshole English teacher
who was tired of brown stains on his carpet.

6) A large canister of freon.

7) A voodoo icon I had been scaring the black kids with.

8) A friend's 20 gauge that I had been playing with in the back
of his pickup when it went off. Sucker was defective. He never
stopped bragging about that hole in his bed.

9) A milk carton full of German cockroaches.

10) Several banners proclaiming an(other) English teacher to be
a pedophile. Suspended 3 days. Xferred to another class.

11) A copy of the school janitor's skeleton key.

12) Two pigeons, a large cigar, and several firecrackers.

--
"Violence in the pursuit of Greed is no Sin."

From: Hulkturds@crappagammabrick.ouch (HellPope Huey)

>
> now that you mention it, how did I get ahold of Naked Lunch in 7th grade?

You paid the 35 cents for your lunch, the grumbling lady in the hairnet
ladled the boiled pizza glob onto yer tray and when you pulled the last of
her long & vigorous chin hairs from the food, the book dropped from its
root. That's how I got MY copy, anyway. Hell of a work, considering that
it sprang from the mind of a guy who was so fucked up he shot his wife in
the head playing Wm. Tell with shot glasses and pistolero braggadacio. One
always holds a certain romantic notion about counterculture demigods until
one is picking BRAINS from one's lapel. PRAISE Uncle Bill! "Asked me what
the American Flag means to me, I said 'soak it in heroin, Doc, & I'll SUCK
it!"

HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
*Pope *Composer *Envisonary
*Bi-polar ice cap on brain

"All columnists are fifth columnists. Prominent for a moment, they
rapidly go out of view,
but the influence stays, and the impulse to contemplate abides. Its not a
career deep down; it is a protest against being overwhelmed by the
speed of things, against letting the world get away from us."
- Roger Rosenblatt, "The Man In The Water"

"Man shoots neighbor with machete."
- Miami Herald

"He's full of pluck, moxie and grit,
all of which he'll be tested for after the race."
- "The Simpsons"

They call me Nyquil Junkie, I don't know what they mean, but I just cain't
be satisfied unless my tongue is green, so gimme a bottle of Nyquil, that
restful sleep my body needs, Analgesic decongestant with a antihistamine

From: ebear@MI$direct.ca (knockout bear)

> Sub-Species No.23 wrote:
> >
> >
> > Oops, and I know what Conan is, but I've never seen it.
>
> Oooh. Dang. You gotta check out "Conan the Barbarian",
> the Arnold Schwartzkopf movie. It doesn't have a *lot*
> of dialogue, but damn near every bit is memorable, even
> quotable.
>
> I have friends who have memorized the lines. And it has
> a simple plot: it's about this religious leader who
> strives to build an empire based on peace and love, only
> to be thwarted by this trio of hate-filled barbarians and
> an evil sorcerer.
>
The plot sounds strangely familiar.

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From: ebear@MI$direct.ca (knockout bear)

I was thinking something a bit closer to home

From: "John Leonard" <remove_for _spamjohn.leonard@wwc.com>

You know, when I asked this question, I was really asking; what is the
relationship between what William Burroughs, as a One-Worlder, wrote in the
fifties, and what you, as One-Worlders, are saying now? Some of the themes
that I see in Burroughs work are: Homosexuality, Battle-of-the-Sexes, social
scientists like Drs. Benway and Berger who manipulate large poulations, the
association of sex and death, and the use of brain implants, among others.
I realize that Burroughs function, for 'The Conspiracy', was to take
these things and twist them into a story that made no sense, and discredit
some of these ideas as delusional. And that that is your function as well. I
was actually just trying to identify the exact evolution from his discourse
to yours.

John Leonard

From: joecosby@SPAMBLOCKmindspring.com (Joe Cosby)

> I realize that Burroughs function, for 'The Conspiracy', was to take
>these things and twist them into a story that made no sense, and discredit
>some of these ideas as delusional.

If that was 'Burrough's function', then he failed magnificently.
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From: Ouroboros Rex <c-bee1@staff.uiuc.edu>

I am continually baffled by this "one-worlder" business.

Subgenii are technically "no-worlders". We can't wait to get off
this shitball and render it unto dust.

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From: t3dy@aol.commanding (sned the bold)

aargh, this thread showed up with 23 posts in my newsreader when i looked just
now.
things can only go downhill from here on in
R.I.P. captain clark

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