…part of the progress here. What was your comment? Do? I believe it is absolutely it's a key. I'm not into absolutes William Burroughs was another honored ancestor and he talked a lot about not using the article the because it's so singular. I think there…

…So we determined to go there and incidentally or perhaps not incidentally I don't know it was actually the same route that William Burroughs had followed some 15 years before when he wrote the yahé letters. He went to the same area looking for yahé and…

…an equation, something. Well, further research indicated then, and I think probably the key source here is that book that William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg did in the late sixties called the Yahe letters, where I can't remember what the order of…

…you go into nature loaded every rock, every tree, every stream is saying, awaken, awaken, come to focus. There's minutes to go, as William Burroughs likes to say. You know, so we have to connect up. And so we are, in a sense, the hands of this diffuse…

…on Derrida and Lucan and Foucault and that whole crowd and saying all of them put together were not worth one page of William Burroughs, basically. And not that we care about this, but in academia this is big news because theyre in awe of all those…

…it, and I now think it's completely reasonable to suggest that most ideas are caused by viral infections of one sort or another. William Burroughs on to this, you know, he said in language, is a virus from outer space. That's got it down to a bumper…

…are like the privileged observers of this. It's as though, well, no less a psychedelic Voyager researcher and bon vivant than William Burroughs said, English is a virus from outer space. And that's what I've been trying to say, and now I'm finished. You're…

…or that you should. Be ravaged by these drugs? Yes. Well, my public image, I think, is a kind of wild man, halfway between William Burroughs and Tim Leary. But that's not who you are. No, it's not who I am at all. I'm a somewhat stodgy irish scholar.…

…very recently. I mean, ayahuasca is a good example. In our lifetime, ayahuasca has gone from being the subject of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg's book the Yahei Letters, where they actually had to make the equivalent of a spiritual pilgrimage to…

…right here and from here out is this thing, which no matter how much science fiction you've done, no matter how much William Burroughs you've read, no matter how much time you spent in the company of the weird, the bizarre, the outre and the peculiar,…

…There may not be any consciousness without the disinfection of language. Yeah, well, I don't have any trouble with that. I mean, William Burroughs said language is a virus from outer space. And, well, it may be. It does have, you know, it self replicates…

…like an informational creature of some sort. I mean, languages live, they reproduce themselves. Virus. Yes, it's a kind of virus. William Burroughs said this. He said, english is a virus from outer space. I have no quarrel with this. This seems entirely…

…are like the privileged observers of this. It's as though, well, no less a psychedelic voyager researcher and bon vivant than William Burroughs said, English is a virus from outer space. And that's what I've been trying to say, and now I'm finished. Yeah,…

…far weirder than anybody anticipated. Even the weirdest among us have been overreached. I remember when I was 16 I readdeze William Burroughs naked lunch mostly for pornographic reasons. But it seemed to me it was like the ravings of a diseased intellect.…

…like you have to be visibly at some of these things. Because you're marketed as a personality. And, you know, I am not William Burroughs, nor was Mickey to be. But I am interested enough in being read that I'm willing to sign books and stand up and…

…something that lets you do something. What, therefore, would be the ultimate tool. It would let you do anything. And as William Burroughs said, says, anything. That's what it would let you do. The flying saucer comes into the discussion at this point. The…

…Terrence gave the talk that we were about to listen to, the only information about ayahuasca in the popular press was William Burroughs Yahe letters, which didn't exactly present a very positive picture about that substance. So let's see what the state of…

…trying to turn it into something which would make us better people or worse people. It doesn't seem to operate like that. William Burroughs had the notion that he said languages of virus from outer space. It's possible that language is some kind of higher…

…is like an informational creature of some sort. I mean, languages live. They reproduce themselves. Yes. It's a kind of virus. William Burroughs said this. He said, english is a virus from outer space. I have no quarrel with this. This seems entirely…

…you know, how much life you can buy, how many indulgences your tithing can procure for you. It's all paying off. Somebody, as William Burroughs said, it's all some kind of a racket, which doesn't mean you want to throw down your cards and stomp off into…

…coach, then what happened to, how is this freedom? And how can we expect to get an Einstein and an Andy Warhol and a William Burroughs and a Mick Jagger and so forth out of a world where everybody is the same? Of course, celebrity jeans will be hugely…