…machine. Have you noticed that the computers are all getting weirder lately? Simon asked, testing her, the programmers are getting weirder. Ms Burroughs said not falling into Simon's trap, I knew it was bound to happen. As soon as I read a survey back…

…a matter of fact I have dabbled a little trip now and then no pattern of surely abuse, that's what they all say. Ms Burroughs sniffed, but the cookie glitch pops up more and more places every day. I'll wager you've seen it by now haven't you? Of…

…I think William Burroughs quite a few. They sent out 1 000 as I said it was everybody they admired. It was funny because Burroughs Actually sort of he gave an interview to the los angeles weekly when the arts show when the ports of entry show opened…

…the o t o and his interest in Crowley which I had never heard him talk about you'd probably have genesis. I helped earn Burroughs Onto Crowley. What was his take on Crowley? Well I could say that when I first met William in London in 1970, 71, when…

…and various other things from illuminatus so I assume I had an influence on him. That would make sense. Actually talking of Burroughs that was actually one of the questions that cropped up while I was on the Subway coming from Brooklyn Funnily enough this…

…and he was a faggot. And I was pondering on that and two things crossed my mind. One was why do you think that Burroughs was dismissed so easily when I would have thought it was obvious that he had to be a serious contender culturally for the last…

…So that's a two part question. Part one is: well what I think of is one day in 1968 during the democratic convention, I took Burroughs and Ginsberg to the playboy club as my guest. I was working for playboy at the time and I was interested in the way…

…bunnies didn't exist in their universe. And when we parted on the street and I had to go back to the office to work. Burroughs who I had met in 1964 and had known for quite a while and corresponded with Burroughs shook hands with me very formally and…

…go back to the office to work. Burroughs who I had met in 1964 and had known for quite a while and corresponded with Burroughs shook hands with me very formally and Allen threw his arms around me and kissed me on Michigan Avenue. I think that explains…

…that's going to be a negative, have a negative effect upon his reputation and his influence in the future? I don't think Burroughs view of humanity is any lower than that of Jonathan Swift or mark twain and they've survived. I think Burroughs has…

…don't think Burroughs view of humanity is any lower than that of Jonathan Swift or mark twain and they've survived. I think Burroughs has survived. The thing about Burroughs is he was sort of the world's best known writer who nobody read other than James…

…humanity is any lower than that of Jonathan Swift or mark twain and they've survived. I think Burroughs has survived. The thing about Burroughs is he was sort of the world's best known writer who nobody read other than James Joyce. He is sort of the…

…doesn't interest you so much as the interviews. The third mind, the job. That was a change though when I first came across Burroughs I would disagree. First of all I did genuinely love reading Finnegan's wake because if you read it out loud it's a joy…

…if you read it out loud it's a joy even when you haven't got a clue what he's talking about. And the same with Burroughs I discovered when I began reading nova Express Out loud I was completely affected in a very different way and it made a lot…

…a neurological response rather than an intellectual, conscious response. We're all on different wavelengths. The first thing I saw about Burroughs was several passages from naked lunch which were in a magazine called big table before the book was ever…

…that and I went home and I said to my wife: this is the greatest writer since James Joyce. I just felt the way Burroughs used prose was like it had electricity nobody else was writing at that voltage and I felt that way ever since. I've always felt…

…that way ever since. I've always felt he's the major writer that I'm competing with, if I'm competing with anybody. What's your favourite Burroughs book, Jim? I couldn't answer that. To tell you the honest truth it's a body of work. I don't think you can…

…to the world of familiar things. Yes we are okay we're back in the infinity Factory. Jen you were talking about which Burroughs books you'd recommend, right so what I think I was saying was that my initial immersion in William Burroughs was the fiction,…

…having that whole resonance that somebody tells you something and then you realize it's what you've always known. Well you've used the Burroughs cut up the Brian Gison rather cut up techniques in your work a lot. Absolutely. I felt that the tape recording…

…would understand the implications a lot quicker. And I think that for me the splitting of the atom and the work of Burroughs and gison, splitting up language and thereby to me behavior and culture, which also ritual magic can do all those combined and…

…use and terrorist activity in the culture right, it was a practical handbook. Now bob when I pose that question to you, what Burroughs books do you find are your favorites? Oh naked lunch and the third mind, which, by the way was originally called right…

…are your favorites? Oh naked lunch and the third mind, which, by the way was originally called right where you are sitting now. And when Burroughs changed the title I asked him if I could borrow that title because I liked it a lot I put it on one of…

…the artist is still present in the choice of raw material and in their own re editing of what they receive. Yeah, Burroughs himself would use Joseph Conrad, Jules Verne, the Bible. He used Shakespeare's the tempest a lot, right, he had fine taste…

…physics or Crowley you don't know whether they're executing their will and intent or whether there is some other program you know the Burroughs Guyson thing of in a pre recorded universe. Who made the first recording? It could be true within all of us so…

…mystical, whatever it is the mystical mishmash. What is the 23 enigma? Well, the 23 enigma did I start to sound a little like Burroughs then I thought I did. Well the 23 enigma. Burroughs told me about the 23 enigma back around 65. He had observed a…

…23 enigma? Well, the 23 enigma did I start to sound a little like Burroughs then I thought I did. Well the 23 enigma. Burroughs told me about the 23 enigma back around 65. He had observed a lot of coincidences connected with the number 23 and as soon…

…he have quite an influence on the beat movement as well well he had a big influence on William Burroughs. Burroughs studied with kaczybski. Personally I studied with kaczybski's successors at the institute of general semantics but Burroughs studied with…

…on William Burroughs. Burroughs studied with kaczybski. Personally I studied with kaczybski's successors at the institute of general semantics but Burroughs studied with kaczybski himself. Wow, Burroughs and I really that was one of the things we had in common…

…kaczybski. Personally I studied with kaczybski's successors at the institute of general semantics but Burroughs studied with kaczybski himself. Wow, Burroughs and I really that was one of the things we had in common is that interest in how words influence…

…and I really that was one of the things we had in common is that interest in how words influence perceptions. That's what led Burroughs to his experiments with cut ups. If you break the lines of word and image what happens? Do you get free of the…

…new patterns or are you still stuck with the same old patterns because you're using the same words? I think all of Burroughs cut up experiments are interesting. My favorite is in a book called the third mind and it goes: god damn floating whorehouse…

…of the 20th century. He may have cut up a porno novel in a news story or a porno novel in a poem by Dylan Thomas. Burroughs cut up all sorts of things. Burroughs did a short article in one of his books made up of cut ups of the most devastating…

…up a porno novel in a news story or a porno novel in a poem by Dylan Thomas. Burroughs cut up all sorts of things. Burroughs did a short article in one of his books made up of cut ups of the most devastating critiques written of his works by critics…

…down to American Express mailed it, stopped at a cafe, had coffee with a friend, came home and it was late afternoon and Burroughs said where did the whole day go to? He decided the short time mob had moved in. The short time mob are extraterrestrial…

…found their way into literature? I suppose there must be some influence on Ginsberg because he was so heavily influenced by Burroughs. To me though the equivalent of Korzybski in literature is Joyce's Ulysses, which has lots of is's in it, and because…

…he have quite an influence on the beat movement as well? Well he had a big influence on William Burroughs. Burroughs studied with Kaczynski. Personally, I studied with Kaczynski's Successors at the institute of general semantics but Burroughs studied with…

…William Burroughs. Burroughs studied with Kaczynski. Personally, I studied with Kaczynski's Successors at the institute of general semantics but Burroughs studied with Kaczynski himself. Wow, Burroughs and I really that was one of the things we had in common…

…Kaczynski. Personally, I studied with Kaczynski's Successors at the institute of general semantics but Burroughs studied with Kaczynski himself. Wow, Burroughs and I really that was one of the things we had in common is that interest in how words influence…

…and I really that was one of the things we had in common is that interest in how words influence perceptions. That's what led Burroughs to his experiments with cut ups. If you break the lines of word and image, what happens? Do you get free of the…

…create new patterns? Are you still stuck with the same old patterns because you're using the same words? I think all of Burroughs cut up experiments are interesting. My favorite is in a book called the third mind and it goes god damn floating whorehouse…

…of the 20th century. He may have cut up a porno novel and a news story or a porno novel and a poem by Dylan Thomas. Burroughs cut up all sorts of things. Burroughs did a short article in one of his books made up of cut ups of the most devastating…

…up a porno novel and a news story or a porno novel and a poem by Dylan Thomas. Burroughs cut up all sorts of things. Burroughs did a short article in one of his books made up of cut ups of the most devastating critiques written of his works by…

…down to American Express, mailed it, stopped at a cafe, had coffee with a friend, came home and it was late afternoon and Burroughs said where did the whole day go to? He decided the short time mob had moved in. The short time mob are extraterrestrial…

…found their way into literature? I suppose there must be some influence on Ginsberg because he was so heavily influenced by Burroughs. To me though the equivalent of Korzybski in literature is Joyce's Ulysses, which has lots of is's in it, and because…

…my novels my poetry, my plays and films like reality is what you can get away with, and using cut up in the Burroughs manner to get juxtapositions that the conscious mind couldn't conceive. And I consciously use mythic material. And of course I've got a…

…you once wrote a whole book without using the verb is. Yes that's quantum psychology. I also break sentences up in the Burroughs way so there's no subject and predicate. I use Joyce in stream of consciousness. I run words together so one word has…

…create literature that way that's pure random that's not creativity. If they don't know I'm doing it they like it. That's very funny. Burroughs always admits he's doing it. He's had a lot of trouble. I have that in every one of my novels. I've never…

…into another chapter the way you deal a deck of cards. Many sentences were created just by the fold in method of Dyson and Burroughs. But some of the sentences that looked like they were created that way were and they came out of my dreams yes there…

…machine. Have you noticed that the computers are all getting weirder lately? Simon asked testing her, the programmers are getting weirder, MS Burroughs said not falling into Simon's trap, I knew it was bound to happen. As soon as I read a survey back…

…a matter of fact I have dabbled a little trip now and then no pattern of abuse. Surely that's what they all say MS Burroughs sniffed but the cookie glitch pops up more and more places every day. I'll wager you've seen it by now haven't you? Of course…

…the sake of fairness and comparison, which I learned from William S Burroughs, One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. Burroughs was living in Tangier and he got up one morning, had a little breakfast, wrote a letter, went down to American…

…stopped off had a cup of coffee with a friend, chatted for a while, came home and it was four in the afternoon and Burroughs asked himself where the hell did the whole day go what happened to the whole day? And he sat down and thought about it.…

…time mob had moved in on Tangier. The short time mob are one of a group of extraterrestrial invaders who inhabit Burroughs Fiction and apparently inhabit his nervous system too because it's very hard to distinguish Burroughs Fiction from his non fiction. I…

…extraterrestrial invaders who inhabit Burroughs Fiction and apparently inhabit his nervous system too because it's very hard to distinguish Burroughs Fiction from his non fiction. I don't think Burroughs believed there was such a distinction anyway. The short…

…inhabit his nervous system too because it's very hard to distinguish Burroughs Fiction from his non fiction. I don't think Burroughs believed there was such a distinction anyway. The short time mob steals people's time from them. If you're not paying…

…novelist of the 20th century, the century of which this is the last year in spite of the idiots on Twitter and television. Burroughs when he was living in Tangier, knew a captain Clark who ran a ferry from Tangier to Gibraltar. And one day captain Clark…

…I've been sailing 23 years without an accident and that day his ship sank and everybody went down with it and that night Burroughs was thinking about it and composing the way he usually composed in those days. This was pre computer this was back in the…

…in it. So he was writing about captain Clark and the ship sinking which is what had happened that day and was on Burroughs mind. And over the radio came an announcement that a flight from New York to Miami had crashed an eastern airlines flight and…

…to Miami had crashed an eastern airlines flight and the captain was named captain Clark and it was flight 23. And so Burroughs decided there was something very weird about the number 23. And he began extensive investigation what he told me about it. I…

…It gets even more complicated when you realize that some of them are neither stupid nor full of shit they're just fucking crazy, as Burroughs said in his last words. So every time I look at a politician on television now I do a lot of dial surfing. At…

…novelist, author of naked lunch, cities of the red night and various other books some of you may have heard of, I hope. Burroughs was living in tangiers many years ago. One day he had breakfast, wrote a letter, went down to the American Express to post…

…doing. But they're going through this evolutionary pattern that's more intelligent than they are it seems to be some kind of Burroughs would call it a virus. Vico calls it divine Providence. Some people think Vico was very sarcastic. He was writing while…