Shoot me darling, shoot me in the head and go.

[reddragdiva]

I think what I like about William S. Burroughs is that he's so clearly utterly, utterly batshit insane, but is so eloquent about it. You can hear his voice speaking every word.

He's the perfect slacker role model: didn't write his great work until he was forty-five, lived off his parents until he was fifty and still changed the face of Western culture. You should do so well.

The best biography (of anyone) I've ever read is Literary Outlaw by Ted Morgan (whose own life looks at a glance like prime bio material). A real page-turner. The film of Naked Lunch is more or less the writing of the book.

Further for your local interest: Burroughs on Scientology.

Comments

[reddragdiva]

If you find yourself in Bumblefuq again, get a goddamn typewriter. Not a computer, a typewriter. Acoustic.

[ex-unagothae16.livejournal.com]

Heaven forbid, but IF, then I will get one first day back. I've already got two cases of excellent paper.

I want a typewriter now, dammit.

[reddragdiva]

I wrote a long answer to you I'm now turning into a new post. Well done ;-*

[ex-unagothae16.livejournal.com]

*swoon* I love being a muse sometimes :)

[fluffymormegil.livejournal.com]

Dammit. So do I, now.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

If you want something, go to the shop and buy it. Then you'll have one.