William Burroughs

[the morphine the better]

Cities of the Red Night is amazing

The plot of this somewhat disjunctive work revolves around a group of revolutionary homosexual opiate addict sorcerers who seek the freedom to live as they will, while a supernatural disease spreads across the world.

[freedomclub]

Never heard of it, sounds interesting. I enjoy his coherent narratives. Some of the cutout method shit is just silly. I remember trying to read one of his books after smoking some pot and I probably read the same page, shit the same sentence over and over and it would never make sense. Wild imagery tho'.

[nick]

Cities of the red night is part of a trilogy.Read the place of dead roads and the western lands for the full effect.

The only thing of value that I didn't sell for dope is an original uncle Bill "shot gun painting".

[Paregoric Kid]

scarlet fever is a real disease, is that the supernatural one you're talking about? I really liked cities of the red night. gotta go back and read it again.

[Canis aureus]

I know scarlet fever but yeah, that fever was misidentified as scarlet fever by doctors (BTW I have had scarlet fever when I was young, lol) ... in CRN the fever was sort of sexual fever.


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[Bishop]

I found a collectable of "The Naked Lunch" in hard cover this weekend at a Changing Hands bookstore. It's an original print I think from 1959. They had it locked in a glass case. I searched Ebay when I got home, found a paperback version bidding at 35.00.

[djnarkotik]

jus did an essay on his classic book junky. didn realize it till i really analyzed it but that book really does have timeless meanings behind drug use and addiction to opiates. its like a junky myth i think where alot of people can relate to it.

[nick]

jus did an essay on his classic book junky. didn realize it till i really analyzed it but that book really does have timeless meanings behind drug use and addiction to opiates. its like a junky myth i think where alot of people can relate to it.

Junky's a classic,but I think queer is better.

[djnarkotik]

Junky's a classic,but I think queer is better.

ya alright, i havent read queer, but I will check it out. if its written that same style as junky then it should be quality too.

[irish]

I found Queer to be a little more disjointed than Junky, but I read it years ago so I could be wrong.

[upstate_007]

Junky's a classic,but I think queer is better.

Word.

Maybe it's me, but I found "Queer" to be more about 'junkies' and "Junky" to be more about 'queers'.;)