[ In the spirit of the Monday Poem. Delete now if uninterested. ] You're all at the Bowlie, traffic is slow, and it's time for the late-night Friday literatary moment of education. If you don't know who William S. Burroughs is -- He was one of the century's most significant authors. Much of his work is social analysis and social criticism, in the form of fiction that questions the reality structure through themes of mythology, science fiction, and the underbelly of society.
From William S. Burroughs _The Ticket That Exploded_
"The human organism is literally consisting of two halves from the beginning word and all human sex is this unsanitary arrangement whereby two entities attempt to occupy the same three-dimensional coordinate points giving rise to the sordid lattrine brawls which have characterized a planet based on 'the Word,' that is, on separate flesh engaged in endless sexual conflict -- The Venusian Boy-Girls under Johnny Yen took over the Other Half, imposing a sexual blockade on the planet-- (It will be readily understandable that a program of systematic frustration was necessary in order to sell this crock of sewage as Immortality, the Garden of Delights, and love --" [...] "So let us start with one average, stupid, representative case: Johnny Yen the Other Half, errand boy from the death trauma -- Now look i'm going to say it and i'm going to say it slow -- Death -is- orgasm -is- rebirth -is- death in orgasm -is- their unsanitary Venusian gimmick -is- the whole birth death cycle of action -- You got it? -- Now do you understand who Johnny Yen is? The Boy-Girl Other Half strip tease God of sexual frustration -- Errand boy from the death trauma -- His immortality depends on the mortality of others -- The same is true of -all- addicts -- " [...]
From _Nova Express_
"Word is flesh and word is two that is the human body is compacted of two organisms and where you have two you have word and word is flesh and when they started tampering with the word that was it and the blockade was broken and The Nova Heat moved in -- The Venusians sang first naturally they were in the most immediate danger -- They live underwater in the body with an air line - And that air line is the word - Then the technicians spilled and who can blame them after the conditions I assigned to keep them technicians -- Like three thousand years in hot claws -- So I am alone as always -- You understand nova is where I am born in such pain no one else survives in one peace -- Born again and again cross the wounded galaxies -- I am alone but not what you call 'lonely' -- Loneliness is a product of dual mammalian structure -- 'Loneliness,' 'love,' 'friendship,' all of the rest of it -- I am not two -- I am one -- But to maintain my state of oneness I need two ness in other life forms -- Others must talk so that I am remain silent -- If another becomes one then I am two -- That makes two ones make two and I am no longer one -- Plenty of room in space you say? -- But I am not one in space I am one in time -- Metal time -- Radioactive time -- So of course I tried to keep you all out of space -- That is the end of time -- And those who were allowed out sometimes for special services like creating a useful religious concepts went always with a Venusian guard -- All the 'mystics' and 'saints' -- All except my old enemy Hassan I Sabbah who wised up the marks to space and said they could be one and need no guard no other half no word --" +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the reborn Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". WWW: http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +-+ "legion of bedroom saddo devotees" "tech-heads and students" +-+ +-+ "the cardie wearing biscuit nibbling belle & sebastian list" +-+ +-+ "nambling pambling rice pudding & crochet holiday camp +-+ +-+ gangwanking whimsy-thon" +-+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+