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Or the entire Waits oeuvre come to think of it. But TBR would make a great episode. There's been at least one Burroughs episode Weird Studies/Naked Lunch
Opening discussion of fox/hedgehog mapped onto Beatles and themselves. Interesting. I guess I am a hedgehog of sorts, I basically have one idea, couldn't quite tell you what it is but "agency" is trying to point there.
One of the epigraphs, from Burroughs, paraphrasing from memory: "Hustlers of the world, you will finally realize there is one mark you cannot beat, the mark inside."
Hm, I think this is a typical algebraic Burroughs construction, that points to a certain kind of negative self-awareness. It instantly paints a picture of Maya, the mind constantly feeding illusions to itself (and others) but ultimately failing.
Nostalgia for things you never experienced.
Fluidity of world-crossing, yep.
Oddly they didn't know Burroughs has the IP on "zones", they got it from Tarkovsky.
It's kind of like fan fiction...or a remix of Burroughs material.
JFM is a big Burroughs fan.
"Wall-to-wall mindfuckery" (heh)
Burroughs, junk gives you crystalline clarity into the working of the mind (as says de Quncey), lucidity. Suppresses affect and lets you see the machinery. Heh take that MM.
The resonances of different drugs at different times.
JF hasn't done acid, how can that be
de Qunicey, art and crime. All art is subversive, its ontologically part of the process. Is that really true? (subject of JFM book, which I ought to read). "Works of art are machines for destroying ideology".
Art is not group-ish, it's about the response to an individuals absolute aloneness...works of art are also always singular.
You can't play the same piece of music twice the same way, because you and the situation are never the same.