That's terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
What a waste...
I do think about the same thing quite often.
Keep searching for the right balance between live in the moment and save it for the future.
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That's terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by east or bust
What a waste...
I do think about the same thing quite often.
Keep searching for the right balance between live in the moment and save it for the future.
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I refuse to do less than 65.
Can't drive 55?
I don't believe I've ever been in a William Burroughs kinda mood.Quote:
Originally Posted by Meadow Skipper
Maybe it's time.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
https://youtu.be/u6kHN92Yv48
Wow, that really got a hold of meQuote:
Originally Posted by iceclimb
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No I've been a junkie/addict/searcher/ lost person pretty much all my life, I pretty much understand all that. What i don't understand is how he wrote. How did he do it? I have no idea. In the ebb and flow of buzz and recovery there seems to be no room for the creative process, for me at least. If I could figure out how to write while impaired or, more importantly, recovering, I'd own you all by now. But I can't seem to do it.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceclimb
My conclusion is that Burroughs was a liar, a voyeur, a fraud. A fake. You can't be all the way in and still write. It's one or the other.
That's an interesting take. I never thought of it that way, but like Jim Carroll, Burroughs' writing seems pretty authentic. I figure he lived what he wrote. I fished around for a quote and found this:Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
In keeping with the holiday theme, his take on Thanksgiving suits my mood:Quote:
I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring to put down in a more or less straightforward journalistic style something about my experiences with addiction and addicts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLSveRGmpIE
Hmmm. Does that sort of describe most of the beat generation? Or not? Ginzberg, Owsley, Dean Moriarty, Albert Hoffman, Gary Snyder, Tyrone Slrothrop?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Besides, I don't really believe that you'd really be unable to honk down some dark splat about existence, women and the greater cosmos.
it never occurred to me that burroughs could be "fake." i think it would be difficult to write what he wrote without being there.
I go back and forth on that. I know a fair number of writers and addicts of different kinds, and they can be stupid productive at really high levels. But my reason for disagreeing isn't that.Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
I'm good friends with some of Hunter S's good friends, confidants, even landlords. I have always felt just what you describe above about him.... no way you can be that altered and write that way. But he did, and no one who knew him can explain it.
Perhaps the link between the divine and the sublime? Or as one friend of his said, there is some stubbornness that can't be destroyed.
For some those addictions are distraction, for others fuel.
Booze is some men's jet-A.
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^^^^ this today for me.
it's fall in most of the lower 48 now, still breaking thru 90 here in Texas.
Miserable
tough week.... tough year......
need snow
Pensive. Lost a cool uncle and a sweet aunt this week.
Life...
^Thiz. Things have gone batshit insane at work. Feels like the place is imploding. I sure hope some semblance of sanity returns.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2bjenny
welcome to my last 7 monthsQuote:
Originally Posted by riser3
Giddy. I just heard Pio might be back.