William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs
William Seward Burroughs IIwas an American novelist, short story writer, satirist, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author who wrote in the paranoid fiction genre, and his influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. Burroughs wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays. Five books have been published of his interviews and...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 February 1914
CountryUnited States of America
Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.
Revolution in America begins in books and music, then waits for political operatives to 'implement changes after the fact.'
Many of my characters first came through to me as voices. That's why I use a tape recorder.
The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.
For God's sake, keep your eyes open. Notice what's going on around you.
The line between inner and outer landscapes is breaking down. Earthquakes can result from seismic upheavals within the human mind. The whole random universe of the industrial age is breaking down into cryptic fragments.
The Planet drifts to random insect doom.
We are setting out to create new worlds, new beings, new modes of consciousness.
I feel that the change, the mutation in consciousness, will occur spontaneously once certain pressures now in operation are removed. I feel that the principal instrument of monopoly and control that prevents expansion of consciousness is the word lines controlling thought, feeling and apparent sensory impressions of the human host.
When people start talking about their bowel movements, they are inexorable as the processes of which they speak.
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
Is Control controlled by its need to control? Answer: yes.
The more absolute the need, the more predictable the behavior becomes until it is mathematically certain.
The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books, discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest...