From: owner-the-edge-digest@ (The Edge Digested) To: the-edge-digest@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Subject: The Edge Digested V1 #41 Reply-To: the-edge@robin-nvh.bvsd.k12.co.us Sender: owner-the-edge-digest@ Errors-To: owner-the-edge-digest@ Precedence: bulk The Edge Digested Thursday, April 9 1998 Volume 01 : Number 041 Today's subjects from The Edge: [The Edge] WSB Re: [The Edge] Re: William S. Burroughs [The Edge] posters ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 00:14:13 EDT From: AtlasGames Subject: [The Edge] WSB In a message dated 4/6/98 4:22:17 AM, Robin wrote: >His works deal obsessively with sex, drugs, language, and the abuses >of hierarchical power structures. He expresses his manifold ideas >through writing that is dissonant, anarchic, and very powerful. Only >by breaking free of convention -- truly stepping outside the norms and >not just talking about it -- can he critique free of patriarchal >control. This is a really good critique/description of Burroughs. He's a postmodernist's wet dream (perhaps rather literally in "My Education"). The form of his writing is a subversion of the writing and communication process; the descriptions of things like the divided film images in "The Ticket That Expoded" (am I remembering write? I mix up the cut-up books with one another sometimes) is a reflection of the larger work as a sort of unnatural marriage of almost random elements that we're trying to force into a conceptual framework that we understand -- as we do constantly with the world around us. I'm exhausted from the GAMA trade show (just got back today), and thus not saying much clearly -- but, well, it's hard to talk clearly about Burroughs, since he has a way of messing up your mind. Literature as LSD... In any case -- I agree that "The Soft Machine" is a tough place to start appreciating Burroughs. Earlier and later works ("Junky," "Queer," "Ghost of Chance," etc.) are a lot more accessible. - -jn [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 22:34:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Adam T. Ness" Subject: Re: [The Edge] Re: William S. Burroughs On Fri, 3 Apr 1998, Rev. Boblight wrote: > WHOA there, big guy! You just jumped into the DEEP end! > > What you're reading is Burroughs at perhaps his MOST experimental and > LEAST accessible. > > Try _Naked Lunch_, or, better still if you like your writing linear, > _Junky_. Also, his trilogy _Cities of the Red Night_, _The Place of > Dead Roads_, and _The Western Lands_ are more accessible. In fact, > practically ANYTHING he wrote EXCEPT what you're reading will probably > be more to your liking. It may just be my psychotic mind losing touch with reality, but the more I read of this book, the more it makes some strange kind of sense. It seems the first two or three "chapters" or "stories" are the worst of them. The rest can be almost palateable after going through the torture of the first ones. I might just finish it and move on to something lighter. "Frolic on the rooftops, tango on the streets; marimba in the mountains, and dance on the sheets." - Naked Dancing Llama Adam "Hmm! does as Satan." Ness | ICQ #3665941 | Cam #9701-061 [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 09:28:20 -0700 From: Alex Rodriguez Subject: [The Edge] posters were there ever any ONTE posters (specifically any arcana ones)? - -alex [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge ------------------------------ End of The Edge Digested V1 #41 ******************************* [O] You received this message because you are subscribed to the-edge-digest [0] To (un)subscribe, send a message to majordomo@robin.ml.org with body of [O] (un)subscribe the-edge-digest To get off digest, subscribe the-edge [O] To post a message, send it to the-edge@robin.ml.org