burroughs cut up machine

[invisibleplanet]

found this on the web tonight, and though i'd share it with u all!

cut up machine (http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/burroughs/cutup_machine.htm)

[Loz]

Ah, William Burroughs. I love him. He manages to make sex seens so disturbing and yet so romantic at the same time. In fact, a couple of the sex scenes in Naked Lunch are the most romantic that I've read in a book. And then one of them gets hanged. Very disturbing, and very, very great stuff.

[invisibleplanet]

sex and death :) inextricably linked in the mind of any symbolist

(is symbolist a real word?)

[Sway]

I've only read the first pages of "naked lounge"...
It seems "naked lunch" rather than Burroughs books are a bit strange, aren't they? I mean his
style of writing...

[grobelaar]

Originally posted by invisibleplanet
sex and death :) inextricably linked in the mind of any symbolist

(is symbolist a real word?)

I don't know, I've been having lots of erm weird ideas about letters, number and symbol systems - like how they must impose a certain set of order in us, like a base level operating system for our minds - which gets me wondering about the design of symbols, it's partly because I've started sketching, so needed a take any where subject matter that I can sit and do anywhere, so I chose symbols...

I was wandering what someone who invents symbols and symbol systems is called - maybe a symbolographer, so not a symbolist at all, but it's 1am and clearly time for my waffles any way...

[invisibleplanet]

you'd probably get alot out of Cirlot's Dictionary of Symbols.

i think it's quite an expensive book, but u ought to be able to find it in a library

drunk too much coffee again. thinking of borrowing wired's nickname for these moments LOL

[Loz]

...insomniac wanderings...

don't you hate it when your body is tired but your mind is shouting "must! do! stuff!"

I do. I'm going to be knackered in the morning now.

[deccard]

yup. i´m lucky i can go to my job later without loosing it but i don´t earn much money that way. somehow better than to be always totally fucked in the morning and your mind is waking up again at 10 pm but that ain´a solution either....

[marcel]

Originally posted by Loz
your body is tired but your mind is shouting "must! do! stuff!"
A-L-W-A-Y-S!