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Robert Anton Wilson

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Guerrilla ontologist. Psychedelic magician. Outer head of the Illuminati. Quantum psychologist. Sit-down comic/philosopher. Discordian Pope.

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William S Burroughs

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5:00

…the point of view of anywhere else in the universe. I'd like to say something. We've just had an opportunity to catch William Burroughs, red handed, doing what he's been doing for the last few decades: moving way ahead of us and kind of quietly sitting…

33:16

…door closed the cat is both dead and alive. That's the theme of my novel schrödinger's cat. You see that's why William Burroughs is a male in this universe and a female in that universe. Every possibility is equally real. Schrödinger invented this gedanken…

45:23

…earlier in order to break through the conventional way in which words constrain our minds. Yes there are people like Carlisle and William Burroughs who say we've got to get beyond words but they go on writing anyway I decided there's a basic fallacy there…

39:27

…be the only outer head that doesn't have any members. Well I'm curious as to who else was indoctrinated that day 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…

41:45

…of the questions that cropped up while I was on the Subway coming from Brooklyn Funnily enough this morning and just recently William Burroughs passed on, died whichever way one wants to put it and Ginsberg also and Timothy Leary who we both knew and…

48:56

…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, and I guess I should preface that with saying that was 64 65, 66, and so also it was…

54:21

…with that. I think the other thing that is worth remembering is that just as if you take heroin you don't become William Burroughs if you cut up dross you don't get genius necessarily. So the individual author, the artist is still present in the choice…

1:53:21

…would say some but not all they'd start to make sense and they wouldn't be such raving lunatics. So we talked earlier about William Burroughs who also I know personally talked to me about what I he didn't call it e prime but he talked about is leaving…

9:01

…didn't 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…

42:52

…last? And I get estimates running from 15 seconds to 4 minutes. So we create our own time too which is what William Burroughs discovered in Tangier One day. He got up had some coffee made a little breakfast, wrote a letter, went down to American…

46:12

…at least. If you want to go to ten decimal places I'll add a few more than that. So besides the writing of William Burroughs where have the ideas of Korzybski found their way into literature? I suppose there must be some influence on Ginsberg because he…

30:09

…is the difference between a framed thing in an art gallery that says found dollar by Andy Warhol if it's forged by William Burroughs pretending to be Andy Warhol? I think these are the questions the Austrian School did not ultimately solve. Well, have we…

9:15

…off the RADAR. It might even dent the Steinfeld reruns. And when the Protestants get to hanging again, you know hanging William Burroughs called it the orgasm death gimmick because when your men are hanged and they usually should look into that and raise…

8:20

…didn't 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…

41:39

…last? And I get estimates running from 15 seconds to 4 minutes. So we create our own time too which is what William Burroughs discovered in Tangier One day. He got up, had some coffee made a little breakfast, wrote a letter, went down to American…

44:56

…least. If you want to go to ten decimal places, I'll add a few more than that. So besides the writing of William Burroughs where have the ideas of Korzybski found their way into literature? I suppose there must be some influence on Ginsberg because he…

40:32

…door closed the cat is both dead and alive. That's the theme of my novel Schrodinger's Cat. You see that's why William Burroughs is a male in this universe and a female in that universe. Every possibility is equally real. Schrodinger invented this gedanken…

41:53

…rearrange the pieces and copy down what comes out and do that with several pages and shuffle them up, which is the way William Burroughs creates his books as some of you may know it's the cut up method. Actually it was invented by the dadaists back in…

47:49

…live in different times which I think I ought to quote for 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…

1:24:22

…sense the world without putting words on it and I learned it from ray bontrager who learned it from Krzyzewski. William Burroughs learned it directly from Krzyzewski. I don't know where Richard Bandler learned it but he's obviously learned it somewhere or…

1:04:56

…play. And I added the miraculous 23 when I became a discordian pope on various grounds. One of them I heard from William S Burroughs who I regard as the greatest American novelist of the 20th century. One of them I heard from William S Burroughs, who…

1:05:08

…from William S Burroughs who I regard as the greatest American novelist of the 20th century. One of them I heard from William S Burroughs, who I regard as the greatest American novelist of the 20th century, the century of which this is the last year in…

1:07:25

…birthday, or 23 pops up in some particularly dramatic way similar to that. One time I was lecturing in st Louis where William Burroughs was born oddly enough, and after the lecture as usual a bunch of people crowded around me to ask more questions and…

33:12

…you could say fuck cunt, piss shit, motherfucker, cocksucker and tits after midnight but not before midnight. The last words of William S Burroughs the greatest American novelist of this century I was going to add in my opinion but you know it's my…

33:42

…possibility that the short time mob has moved into the area. The short time mob was discovered by a friend of mine, William S Burroughs, a novelist, author of naked lunch, cities of the red night and various other books some of you may have heard of,…