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	William S. Burroughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Burroughs was born to a prominent family in St.
		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 (1626 words)

	William Burroughs - Biography
		William Burroughs died on Saturday August 2, 1997 at 6:50 pm in Lawrence, Kansas where he had lived since 1981.The apparent cause of his death was a heart attack suffered on Friday August 1.
		William Burroughs was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation, which made huge, now outdated mainframe computers.
		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followed this by a similar study of his homosexuality, 'Queer,' but this was too much even for the pulps, and would not be published for decades.
	www.supered.co.uk /burroughs.html (2045 words)

	William S. Burroughs - FreeEncyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Seward Burroughs (February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997) was an American author and poet.
		On September 6, 1951 in Mexico City, Burroughs accidentally shot and killed his wife during a drunken attempt to imitate William Tell[?]'s feat of shooting an apple off his son's head and was charged with criminal imprudence.
		Burroughs moved to London in the early 1960s and published extensively in small underground magazines, also working on a large manuscript that was published in two parts, "The Wild Boys" and "Port of Saints." He also interacted with like-minded writers such as Alexander Trocchi and Jeff Nuttall[?].
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	William S. Burroughs
		William Seward Burroughs was the oldest of the beat era poets, coming from more of a Bohemian background than his latter companions and often teaching the younger beat poets by exposing them to works of literature he thought important to education [American Writers, 92].
		William S. Burroughs, though he is known as a beat poet, is in fact a precursor to the beat era due to the differences in his background, style, and common themes with those of the beat era poets.
		William Seward Burroughs is not a Beat poet, he is instead clearly a precursor to the Beat movement.
	www.geocities.com /adaliazandra/burroughs/burroughs.html (1139 words)

	William S. Burroughs
		William Seward Burroughs was born to parents Mortimer and Laura on February 5, 1914 and was named after his grandfather who had found wealth through the invention and 1888 patent of the first key-operated adding machine, the Arithmometer.
		Burroughs had known he was a homosexual since adolescence, but in 1939 he chose his first regular boyfriend, a shallow and emotionally abusive blonde by the name of Jack Anderson.
		Burroughs, Ginsberg, and 5 of their friends returned to the old house outside of Lawrence, Kansas where Burroughs once lived and entered into a hole which had been roofed with a bow of tree branches covered in fl plastic.
	members.aol.com /hauntedcoffee/corner/burroughs1.html (2274 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.
		Initially a bank clerk, he invented a "calculating machine" designed to calculate the area of fur skins.
		He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Seward_Burroughs (102 words)

	William S. Burroughs
		William Seward Burroughs II was born 5 February 1914 in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
		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.
		Burroughs is a beat legend, played guru, or teacher, to Kerouac and Ginsberg, has played with drugs, pistols, human life, human consciousness, a quicksilver daredevil with an extra-high IQ.
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/william_s_burroughs.html (276 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)

	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.
		In 1953 the Burroughs Adding Machine Company was renamed the Burroughs Corporation, a name more reflective of their broad scope of products, which began to include computers.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/burroughs.html (421 words)

	William Seward Burroughs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William S. Burroughs fue el inventor de una máquina para sumar que inicialmente no tuvo mucho éxito comercial, pero que eventualmente sería perfeccionadahasta constituirse en un producto atractivo que sirvió de base para fundar la American Arithmomether Company, la cual sería renombrada en su honor después de su muerte.
		Burroughs preparó los planos de su máquina a su peculiar manera, no en papel, sino en placas de cobre con la ayuda de una lupa, a fin de evitar cualquier posible error.
		Burroughs intentó mostrar (sin mucho éxito) a sus clientes la manera apropiada de operar la máquina, pero pronto se percató que era más fácil modificar el diseño que convencerlos de que el problema yacía en ellos y no en la máquina.
	www.ladulce.org.ar /museoinf/William_Seward_Burroughs.htm (2222 words)

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		Burroughs submitted a patent application in 1885 for his 'Calculating Machine' and the patent was awarded in 1888.
		Working in a bank inspired the young inventor with a vision of a mechanical device that would relieve accountants and bookkeepers of the monotony of their tasks and ensure that a smaller percentage of their time was spent correcting errors.
		Burroughs retired from his company in 1897 due to poor health and moved to Citronelle, Alabama.
	www.invent.org /hall_of_fame/23.html (309 words)

	Last Words: the Final Journals of William Burroughs
		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.
		Burroughs ponders the mystery of how the functional beauty of cats co-exists with the meaningless hideousness of his old foe, the centipede.
	www.culturecourt.com /Br.Paul/lit/LastWords.html (1268 words)

	William S Burroughs: The Biography Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Seward Burroughs II was born 5 February 1914, in St.
		When Burroughs is 13, he discovers the autobiography of Jack Black, You Can't Win, and becomes enamored of the outlaw, underground lifestyle.
		Burroughs is arrested in New Orleans for possession of drugs, elects not to stand trial, moves family to Mexico City in 1949.
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/william_s_burroughs.html (1518 words)

	Charles Babbage Institute: CBI'S COLLECTIONS > Burroughs Corporation Records (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Seward Burroughs, inventor of an adding machine and a founder of the American Arithmometer Company (which was eventually renamed in his honor), was born in rural New York, although the date of Burroughs' birth has been hard to establish, it was between 1855 and 1858.
		Burroughs answered the challenge by designing (in a few days), the "dash pot," a mechanism that regulated the pull on the adding machine's handle.
		William Seward Burroughs only glimpsed the beginning of the office automation phenomenon, for he died, in Citronelle, Alabama, in 1898.
	www.cbi.umn.edu /collections/inv/burros/burhist.html (877 words)

	The Cut-up Page: resources on the cut-up technique of William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Tristan Tzara and David Bowie, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Burroughs originated from an American familyfamily family, which by the invention of the Arithometers (the first calculating machine, which was to be served over keys) became wealthy.
		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...
		Burroughs ' effect extended rather to the Popkultur and was in the literature, based on its contentwise and formal innovation, smaller pronounced.
	www.reitzes.com /cutup.html (868 words)

	Articles - Burroughs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Burroughs grew into the biggest adding machine company in America, although by the 1950s it was selling more than the basic adding machines, including typewriters and computers.
		Burroughs produced the B1700 or "small Systems" that were designed to be microprogrammed, with each process potentially getting its own virtual machine designed to be the best match to the programming language chosen for the application being run.
		Burroughs was one of the eight major computer companies (with IBM - the largest, Honeywell, Scientific Data Systems, Control Data Corporation, General Electric, RCA and UNIVAC) through most of the 1960s.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Burroughs (596 words)

	The William S. Burroughs Page
		The www.hyperreal.org/wsb/ Burroughs site started as a list of Buroughs related recordings on Usenet in 1991 and it grew into the first site on the web dedicated to Burroughs and his work.
		The unofficial William Burroughs Homepage is part of web-zine called Firehorse and includes some nicely marked up etexts.
		William S. Burroughs and Music in the Expanded Field by Brent Wood, from Postmodern Culture.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/7923/Burroughs.html (514 words)

	Burroughs, William Seward -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Burroughs, William S. American writer of experimental novels that evoke, in deliberately erratic prose, a nightmarish, sometimes wildly humorous world.
		Burroughs, William S. author and icon of popular culture William S. Burroughs was associated with the beat generation.
		In the spring of 1860 William Henry Seward confidently expected to be the Republican nominee for president of the United States.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9114639 (743 words)

	Denise Low
		Burroughs entered his final decline in 1991, at age 77, when he had a heart attack and bypass surgery.
		The last portrait of Burroughs by photographer Jon Blumb, with a revolver in his hand, disappeared into ash, along with the title page of an early pulp novel.
		On an early spring target-shooting trip near Eudora, Kansas, William Burroughs waved to his shooting companions as he progressed down a muddy farm lane to the shooting area.
	al.gcsu.edu /dlow4.htm (2107 words)

	William Burroughs
		Instead, British scholar Graham Caveney concentrates on Burroughs as a cultural phenomenon whose unsettling ability to depict personal degradation with modernist detachment first awed contemporaries in the beat generation and continued through the 1990s to inspire artists as diverse as grunge rocker Kurt Cobain, painter Keith Haring, and film director David Cronenberg.
		Burroughs, William S. Burroughs studied English at Harvard University and medicine at the University of Vienna and took many jobs before devoting himself to the experimental writing and drug use as part of what would later be known as the Beat Generation.
		Burroughs work, in large part, revolves around drug use - he was a heroin addict - and sexuality and includes: Port of Saints, Naked Lunch, The Wild Boys, Cities of the Red Night, and many more.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/b/burroughs_william_s.htm (1005 words)

	COSMIC BASEBALL ASSOCIATION-WILLIAM BURROUGHS 1997 PLAYER PLATE
		In addition to Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs is credited with defining the Beat Generation.
		Burroughs identified less with the world of the artist than with the world of the criminal.
		Burroughs' literary style is experimental and his stories and characters represent one vision of what post-psychedelic humanity will be like.
	www.cosmicbaseball.com /burroug7.html (1016 words)

	William Seward Burroughs -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		William Seward Burroughs (January 28, 1857 - September 14, 1898) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American inventor, born in Rochester, (A Mid-Atlantic state; one of the original 13 colonies) New York.
		Initially a bank clerk he invented an adding machine (initially designed to calculate the area of fur skins) and was a founder of the American Arithmometer Company (later (Click link for more info and facts about Burroughs Corporation) Burroughs Corporation, after his death).
		He was the grandfather of (United States writer noted for his works portraying the life of drug addicts (1914-1997)) William S. Burroughs the writer.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_seward_burroughs.htm (156 words)

	The Burroughs Machine
		William Seward Burroughs wrote some of the most brutal and hilarious texts of the 20th century, novels, stories, essays and paintings that sought to shatter the monotonous "control" of the present.
		Writer and composer Paul Bowles wrote of the Burroughs machine, not to be confused with the adding machine of the same name:
		At any point of the day or night you might happen to catch him, you will always find that the whole machine is going full blast, and that means that he is laughing or about to laugh.
	www.personal.psu.edu /faculty/r/m/rmd12/Burroughs.html (197 words)

	LitKicks: William S. Burroughs
		by Levi Asher (brooklyn) Sep 20, 2001 6:01 AM William Seward Burroughs was the grandson of the founder of the Burroughs Adding Machine company, which evolved into the Burroughs Corporation, which made huge, now outdated mainframe computers.
		Burroughs was born on February 5, 1914 in St.
		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.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=WilliamSBurroughs (1217 words)

	Biografía de William Seward Burroughs --> Generación Clic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Burroughs nació en una familia muy pobre y nunca fue a la escuela.
		Burroughs quería desarrollar un mecanismo que operara sin errores y que a la vez fuera rápido.
		Burroughs murió en 1898 y en 1905 el nombre de su compañía se cambió al de Burroughs Adding Machine Company.
	gclick.tripod.com.ar /biografias/wsb.htm (200 words)

	WILLIAM SEWARD BURROUGHS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Burroughs grew up in St.Louis, where his upper-class midwestern background did not suit his tastes.
		Their son went to live with Burroughs' parents and he wandered the world from south America to Tangier.
		Kerouak didn't like Tangier, but he was knocked out by the messy pile of stories Burroughs had been idly writing, and he and Ginsberg helped to type them up.
	www.lsmarconi.it /users/biocchi/Inglese/vita%20Burroughs,%20ingl.htm (566 words)

	a living, breathing and ever growing William S. Burroughs Web Memorial
		Burroughs and may you be sitting in your chair polishing a revolver and laughing at we mortals scurring around for our crumbs...
		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.
		So, in a nutshell, Burroughs did what so many great writers have done, that is, he made the place spacier and freer for the rest of us, he let some air in, not to mention the mice.
	www.ibiblio.org /mal/MO/wsb (12820 words)

	Chronic'art : Le Mag
		Adulé par l’underground, plébiscité par les stars, William Burroughs avait hissé son propre personnage au rang de mythe vivant.
		William Seward Burroughs repose en paix depuis l’été 1997 et hors du personnage, trop peu de gens s’attacheront sérieusement à ses écrits.
		A présent, Burroughs c’est avant tout le mythe du camé repenti, l’attrait commode pour une Beat generation devenue passage obligatoire du ringard cultivé de cette fin de siècle.
	www.chronicart.com /mag/mag_article.php3?id=863 (459 words)

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