Today's Topics:
Burroughs
The aura of leadership
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 19:54:17 EST
From: Michael Turyn <mturyn@psyche.mit.edu>
Message-Id: <9202010054.AA23118@psyche.mit.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject:
Work your way slowly into Burroughs' writing---start with _Junkie_ and
_Queer_, which are relatively linear. The read _Interzone_ which is an
attempt to document his jump to something else.
Or just start off with _Naked Lunch_---it would be hard to compare with the
movie, because it 's pretty much unique. There 's something different
about a book which has been smuggled.
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Message-Id: <m0lA5dU-0000W4C@vishnu.reed.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 13:19 PST
From: Nelson Minar <nelson@reed.edu>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Burroughs
>Has anyone out there ever read the novel "Naked Lunch"? I ask
>because I saw the film version last weekend (very interesting,
>striking imagery, some implicit SubG influences...)
I think you've got the influences backwards, pinko.
You'll find better discussion of the movie in archives of rec.arts.movies,
if you're really interested. I thought it was a good film, but by no
means Cronenberg's best. "Dead Ringers" is a much finer film, and
"Videodrome" is much weirder.
As for the Burroughs side of the movie, don't forget that this is not a
movie OF Naked Lunch, it is a movie about Burroughs, and some of the events
are taken from Naked Lunch. Personally, I objected to the Hollywood feel
of the special effects, as well as the heterosexual wash given to the film.
But I haven't read Naked Lunch yet (reading Queer now - pretty good).
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nelson@reed.edu \/ Civilization runs in 500,000 year cycles
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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 92 10:28:46 +0100
From: Jean-Alain Le Borgne <jalb@ccv.fr>
Message-Id: <9201310928.AA14874@jekyll.ccv>
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: The aura of leadership
Well, looks to me it's a remake of Hunter Thompson's article about
some big guy in the '72 campaign (Wallace?) being a regular user of
Ibogaine... With spicy details and correspondence between his
behavior and clinical data. Except today it could be "Halciongate":
George Bush, the first US Prez to be brought down for psychiatric
reasons... Sure beats shooting or Watergating...
[jalb]
Fortune Of The Hour:
I ain't gonna piss in no jar!
---Mojo Nixon
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