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William S. Burroughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Burroughs, Ginsberg and Herbert Huncke in ‘The Bunker’, 1979. Burroughs' mother, Laura Lee Burroughs, was the daughter of a distinguished minister whose family claimed to be descendants of Robert E. Lee. Burroughs attended John Burroughs School in St. Louis, and The Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, but was expelled from the latter because staff had found private journals concerning a budding erotic attachment to another boy. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_S._Burroughs   (4243 words)

William Seward Burroughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Seward Burroughs (January 28, 1857 - September 14, 1898) was an American inventor, born in Rochester, New York. He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the writer. Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "calculating machine" designed to calculate the area of fur skins. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Seward_Burroughs   (102 words)

William S. Burroughs William Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914, in St. Louis, Missouri, the grandson of the inventor of the Burroughs adding machine. Although Burroughs collaborated on a humorous sketch with a classmat, Kells Elvins, at Harvard and completed a short novel written in the style of Dashiell Hammett with Kerouac, both works were rejected by publishers, and Burroughs did not think of himself as a writer. Burroughs has said that the death of his wife gave him a literary vocation. www.levity.com /corduroy/burroughs.htm   (665 words)

Burroughs "Burroughs' sensory-overload style of writing has influenced a whole new generation of authors, among them William Gibson and the cyberpunk scene. Burroughs was a literary outlaw to some, an apostle to drugs and obscenity to others, but few would deny that Burroughs left his mark on American culture. Burroughs' writing is based on oral 'routines', satiric or surreal monologues which later grow, expand, implode and fold in on themselves to produce the finished books". www.fb10.uni-bremen.de /anglistik/kerkhoff/beatgeneration/Burroughs.htm   (550 words)

William S. Burroughs William Seward Burroughs was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation and not too long ago merged with Sperry Univac to form Unisys. Burroughs followed this by a similar study of his homosexuality, 'Queer,' but this was too much even for the pulps, and would not be published for decades. Pursued by the law for his drug activities, Burroughs took Joan and the children to Mexico, and it was there that he committed the thoughtless act that would change his life. www.beatmuseum.org /burroughs/williamsburroughs.html   (984 words)

Inventor of the Week: Archive William Seward Burroughs, inventor of the first workable adding machine, was born in rural New York in 1855. William Joseph E. Boyer, a St. Louis manufacturer who had supported Burroughs' efforts for many years, became president of the American Arithmometer Company in 1902. The Burroughs family's legacy lived on not only through William Seward Burroughs, his adding machine fortune and the Unisys Corporation, but also through his late grandson, William S. web.mit.edu /invent/iow/burroughs.html   (421 words)

Creek renamed in Burroughs' honor LJWorld.com In addition to his literary accomplishments, Burroughs was a drug addict, a bisexual, and in his younger years shot and killed his wife during a party stunt. For longtime Burroughs friend and estate executor James Grauerholz, the re-naming of the creek was not so much about celebrating Burroughs' lifestyle as it was about his literary contributions and importance to Lawrence's history. Burroughs and the high-profile nature of the case, the board members probably had thought about it many times well before the meeting," Payne said. ljworld.com /section/burroughs/story/171264   (743 words)

William S Burroughs: The Biography Project William Seward Burroughs II was born 5 February 1914, in St. RE/Search 4/5: William S Burroughs, Bryon Gysin& Throbbing Gristle, 1982 Ports of Entry: William S Burroughs & the Arts, 1996 www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/william_s_burroughs.html   (1518 words)

William Burroughs Burroughs detractors wonder why people would be willing to buy books that were composed of randomly constructed sentences, but Bill was quick to point out the process wasn't totally random. As only Burroughs could, he wrote up his account of taking the oily, nauseating drink followed by the retching spasms, convulsions, and loss of consciousness as a mind-expanding experience. David Bowie admired Bill's work and saw a kinship between his own Ziggy Stardust character and Burroughs' work. members.aol.com /Toonsamples/burroughs.html   (6239 words)

Multimedia – From Wagner to Virtual Reality It was William Burroughs preoccupation with the deconstruction of words and language, most notably through the cut-up and fold-in techniques that he began to develop in 1959 with artist Byron Gysin, which constitutes his most significant contribution to the fragmentary, non-linear approach to contemporary narrative. For Burroughs, narrative operates as a vast, multi-threaded network that reflects the associative tendencies of the mind, collapsing the boundaries of time and space, drawing attention to previously undetected connections, drawing attention to the links between disparate ideas and elements. For this reason, Burroughs refers to himself as "a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas." www.artmuseum.net /w2vr/timeline/Burroughs.html   (171 words)

Guardian Unlimited Books Authors Burroughs, Willliam Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs by Ted Morgan is compulsive and well-researched; Burroughs's Letters are in the pipeline. Few people credit it, but William Burroughs spent 40 years making art. Marianne Faithfull on the life and work of her friend William Burroughs. books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-29,00.html   (328 words)

The Cut-up Page: resources on the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Tristan Tzara and David Bowie, cut, up, cut up, cutup, cut-up The Reflexseuse the Pop culture, the Vermittlerin between academic and subcultureal level, Susan Sontag not in vain chose it to the the subject of an essay ("William Burroughs and the novel"). The Cut-up Page: resources on the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Tristan Tzara and David Bowie, cut, up, cut up, cutup, cut-up Burroughs: "pages with text are cut out and again joined, in order to result in a new combination of words and pictures; that is, the page is cut brought with the shears, usually into four sections, and then into a new order... www.reitzes.com /cutup.html   (868 words)

St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: William S. Burroughs During the 1950s, William S. Burroughs blazed many trails to and from the elucidation of human suffering, and his obsession with the means to this end became an enduring facet of popular culture. Born William Seward Burroughs February 5, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri&; he was the son of a wealthy family (his grandfather invented the Burroughs adding machine) and lived a quiet mid-Western childhood. On the advice of a friend, Burroughs began work on a "memory exercise" which would become his first book--Junky: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict--published in 1953 under the pseudonym William Lee. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200158   (908 words)

Last Words: the Final Journals of William Burroughs Dead fingers shuffle the cut-ups, as William Seward Burroughs, word-hoarder and Medium of the Ugly Spirit, seeks out those intersections of space / time where our terrors, - junk horrors or random insect dooms - flicker in some burning fragment of dream. For Burroughs is elegist of the Dead Roads, scribe of the Western Lands which are bordered by the rivers of death. Burroughs is standing over her, wearing his fedora and a long grey trench-coat. www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/lit/LastWords.html   (1268 words)

Shooting Joan (Vollmer) Burroughs: William S. Burroughs at home, Lawrence, KS: Photographs William Burroughs with cat, Allen Ginsberg, James Grauerholz: Beats in KS William Burroughs stood on his porch and waved good-bye as I got into my van and started to drive away to James Grauerholz's house to stay the night. But William Burroughs' time, his history, is in the past - he is already a classic writer, with much of the shock-value gone. A divorce occurred before William began the ill-fated relationship with Joan Vollmer Burroughs, the relationship that ended with her death in the infamous "William Tell" shooting in Mexico City. www.ku.edu /heritage/beats/shootingjoan.html   (1267 words)

Hot Ink Burroughs was the poete maudit, whose true place was among the wretched, in the underworld of cities, in the places of the dead and dying. Burroughs' romance is a rotting excresence -- full of urban despair, poverty, madness, ho mosexual throbbings, narcotics, the fraternity of thieves and loveless transients. Burroughs came to confront what is essential in the act of art -- it used to be called "a harrowing of the soul" -- and make that the art itself. www.hotink.com /8497.html   (782 words)

St. Louis Walk of Fame - William Burroughs Born at 4664 Pershing Ave., William Burroughs attended Community School and John Burroughs School. Burroughs was inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1983. During World War II, Burroughs met Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, forming the core of the "Beat Generation." An author and visual artist, he is best-known for his writing, which is radically unconventional in technique and content. www.stlouiswalkoffame.org /inductees/william-burroughs.html   (100 words)

DOOM PATROLS, Chapter 10, William Burroughs Burroughs suggests that not just language, but "the whole quality of human consciousness, as expressed in male and female, is basically a virus mechanism." This is not to claim, in the manner of De Saussure and certain foolish poststructuralists, that all thought is linguistic, or that social reality is constituted exclusively through language. Burroughs instead proposes a stranger, more radical strategy: "As you know inoculation is the weapon of choice against virus and inoculation can only be effected through exposure." For all good remedies are homeopathic. Burroughs describes language (or sexuality, or any form of consciousness) as "the human virus." All our mechanisms of reproduction follow the viral logic according to which life produces death, and death in turn lives off life. www.dhalgren.com /Doom/ch10.html   (2913 words)

William S. Burroughs Their son William Burroughs III died at the age of 32 from drink and drug abuse. Literary Outlaw: The Life and Times of William S. Burroughs Burroughs produced the bulk of his writing after he moved to London and took an apomorphine cure under the direction of Dr John Dent. www.kirjasto.sci.fi /wbburrou.htm   (2004 words)

William S. Burroughs Primarily known as a novelist, William S. Burroughs is far more than a writer of imaginative prose and speculative fiction. Like Samuel Coleridge's mariner, Burroughs is a wanderer telling everyone who cares to listen that we are destroying the world we live in, that we have become very nasty in the process, and that we have progressed on the evolutionary ladder as much as we will. Like William Gibson's neuromancer, he has surfed the boundless realms of cyberspace and virtual reality and has returned with an alternative to the limits of space and time. www.spress.de /author/burroughs/visart/default/page.htm   (995 words)

U B U W E B :: William S. Burroughs During the 1960s, William Burroughs was in Europe and England. William S. Burroughs - "From Here To Eternity" from Exterminator (1974, 3:40) William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Timothy Leary, Les Levine, and Robert Anton Wilson (1978) www.ubu.com /sound/burroughs.html   (810 words)

William Burroughs Page Burroughs was a lifelong heroin user and an unrepentant dope fiend. Burroughs was the quintessential anti-hero of the so called Beat Generation. Burroughs' dry humor and biting sarcasm are his trademarks. www.lucaspickford.com /burr.htm   (204 words)

Amazon.com: Books: Queer This is a much more intimate and personal look into the life of William Burroughs than his other stuff. Burroughs is witty in his way (there's a great line about Allerton being untalented at removing people from an occupied space in his life), but because his writing is so permeated with drunks and lascivious characters, you sometimes wonder whether his wittiness is apparent even to him. Burroughs claims in the introduction that just reading the words and putting it down is very painful for him, but he did it so that he could move forward. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140083898?v=glance   (2179 words)

COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-WILLIAM BURROUGHS 1997 PLAYER PLATE Burroughs' introduction to this world occurred when he met a street-wise criminal who exerted an important influence on the Beat Generation vortex, Herbert Huncke. Burroughs' literary style is experimental and his stories and characters represent one vision of what post-psychedelic humanity will be like. Burroughs identified less with the world of the artist than with the world of the criminal. www.cosmicbaseball.com /burroug7.html   (1016 words)

William S. Burroughs In 1951, Burroughs and his wife, Joan Vollmer, while drinking with friends, decided to play “William Tell.” Vollmer put a glass of water on her head, and Burroughs attempted to shoot it off. The forgotten killer: the work of William S. Burroughs, once dangerous, is in danger itself. Narrative after deconstruction: structure and the negative poetics of William Burroughs's 'Cities of the Red Night.' (Style) www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0193679.html   (244 words)

The William S. Burroughs Files William Seward Burroughs, born February 5, 1914, died August 2, 1997, at age 83. These pages have sat unedited since 1995 aside from some brief updates when Burroughs died in 1997. In the years since these pages were originally posted many other sites about Burroughs have come and some gone. www.hyperreal.org /wsb   (92 words)

The Beat Page - William S. Burroughs In 1951 Burroughs, on a jaunt to Mexico, shot his second wife, Joan, in an accident where he reportedly attempted to mock a scene from the William Tell Overture. Perhaps one of the most colorful writers to emerge from the Beat period, William S. Burroughs has led an extremely interesting life. In addition to his numerous books, Burroughs once made an appearance in the Gus Van Sant film, Drugstore Cowboy where he played an older man serving as a momentary mentor to Matt Dillon's character. www.rooknet.com /beatpage/writers/burroughs.html   (1218 words)

BBC - collective - the unseen art of william s burroughs In William Burroughs’ case, though, his artwork sits perfectly next to his writing. The Unseen Art Of William S Burroughs is at the Riflemaker gallery, London, until 12 November 05. Burroughs apparently would talk to the marker-pen portraits like a Wild West gunman before shooting them down with childlike joy. www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A5839419   (418 words)

William S. Burroughs and Cut-up If you want to read more about Cut-ups, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin and Throbbing Gristle, pick up the book RE/Search #4/5. Gysin and Burroughs wanted to introduce the spontaneity and chance of the collage to the written word, and so they developed and utilized the Cut-up technique. Burroughs states correctly that all writing is in fact Cut-ups. www.legendsmagazine.net /104/william.htm   (679 words)

a living, breathing and ever growing William S. Burroughs Web Memorial William Burroughs could be seen as forming a kind of tandem with Henry Miller in that both were writers who saw language as their first great problem. I consider William S. Burroughs to be one of the greatest literary influences on my life and attribute much of my personal writing style to him. Burroughs and may you be sitting in your chair polishing a revolver and laughing at we mortals scurring around for our crumbs... www.ibiblio.org /mal/MO/wsb   (12820 words)

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