…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…

…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.…

…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,…

…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,…

…it with them and them being fully consensual boy do I agree. There is no more fundamental invasion of privacy than such William Burroughs once said there was only one commandment and it was: thou shalt not blow pot smoke in thy PET's Face. I'm going…

…processes, of information technology, of resource depletion, of atmospheric degradation the countdown is on, you know minutes to go. In William Burroughs Wonderful phrase, somebody wants to rent me an apartment. Maybe they think I should stay. So in a way,…

…fun to go to both sets of parties and I think I was a fairly dark person as an adolescent. I mean my heroes were William Burroughs, Jean Genet and that crowd. And then I smoked DMT I had taken LSD before and I got the idea that there was something…

…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've spent in the company of the weird the bizarre the ultra and the peculiar,…

…until 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 yahé letters where they actually had to make the equivalent of a spiritual pilgrimage to…

…through the jungle to it. It is as tired and oppressive a South American river town as one could ever hope to see. William Burroughs passed this way in his search for yahé in the fifties. He described it then as looking like some place after a flood.…

…artifact, 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 60s called the yahé letters, where I can't remember what the order of it…

…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 genes will be hugely…

…history of life. And it's hard to believe that it didn't happen in order to accommodate language. Well then what exactly is language? William Burroughs said it's a virus from outer space yes but what does it want with this? What is it trying to do? I…

…they are made out of language, they are living language. Well what is language? Well it turns out we don't know. You know William Burroughs said language is a virus from outer space. That comes close to it I think, when I enter into the DMT space what…

…and we 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.

…we 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…

…informational creature of some sort. I mean languages live, they reproduce themselves. It's a 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…

…feel 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 meant to be but I am interested enough in being read that I'm willing to sign books and stand up and…

…when 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…

…and Lucan and Foucault and that whole crowd and saying you know all of them put together were not worth one page of William Burroughs, Basically, and you know not that we care about this but in academia this is big news because they're in awe of all…

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

…are to be had for the taking. And this makes us susceptible it makes us marks to use a word that is dear to William Burroughs Shamanism is an effort to get outside the carny midway to actually walk between the tents and to discover the cool night that…

…it with them and them being fully consensual boy do I agree. There is no more fundamental invasion of privacy than such. William Burroughs once said there was only one commandment and it was: thou shalt not blow pot smoke in thy PET's Face. I'm going…

…yes, should you be ravaged by these drugs? Yes well my public image, I think is as 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, logical Irish…

…until around 2004 and 2005, and by that time it will be clear to everyone what is on the end of every fork, as William Burroughs once said. In other words, it will be clear that history has been canceled. It will be clear that there is no human…

…There may not be any consciousness without this infection 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…

…until 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 yahé 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've spent in the company of the weird, the bizarre the ultra and the peculiar,…

…fairly intellectually prepared, you know I mean a kid, but nevertheless, double scorpio art history major, Hieronymus Bosch Fan, moby dick, William Burroughs you know. And it was, as I came down and this went on for like two or three minutes, this…

…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, he said, language is a virus from outer space. It's possible that language is some kind of higher…