Kerouac drank and had cirrhosis of liver. Opiates/opioids don't ruin your intestines, nor anything else. Burroughs was on methadone from 1980 to rest of his life, before that he was on different opiates, on and off. Ginsberg died to liver cancer and got hepatitis from India or somewhere from his journeys.
Even more amazing that he concludes his comment with a Christian quote, which demonstrates how close they were and how much he respected Kerouac as a cultural icon. Even a sober man could only wish to be so well-versed about anything during his lifetime.
Many years ago in the mid-80s, while I was hitchhiking around the country, I saw these two plus Anne Waldman give a talk in Boulder, CO. Burroughs didn't say much, but when he spoke, he was brilliant.
Burroughs, Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Sidney Goldfarb, Matthews, Hughes, Robert Creeley, and many other amazing writers flocked to Boulder [I was student there in the 70s], for writers conferences and readings and teaching. Goldfarb was a professor there, he was a brilliant poet who brought them there.
So true...the counter-culture owes so much to Kerouac's incredible book, its energy was something to be felt indeed, you're one before you read it and one after, as you're one before reading '1984' and one after, and one before reading 'The Great Gatsby' and one after, I can't think of books more influential than those.
@@notimportant8736 I read Naked Lunch, I found it on a book giveaway pile at the laundry under my condo, yeah, its great, but I wouldn't put it on the same level as On the Road, that book has a weird energy around, like its magical somehow.
Rest in Peace, Jack. You were misunderstood, taken as a spokesman when you just wanted to celebrate who we are. Sadly, all that road has given way to cloverleaves and Walmarts. It was happening when you and Neil were cruising those roads. The freedom you had was from a beautiful perspective but it was oa changing America.
I disagree that the changes these movements brought was only temporary. The Beats and the Hippies changed the course of history. It's true that most of the people involved in the Hippie/Young People movement in the sixties have sold out and in many ways, they have become worse than their fathers and grandfathers in terms of greed, lust for power as well as disregard for society, future generations and the environment. What boomer generation did when they were young, taking most of their ideas from the beats, is still having an effect today in many, many small ways, even if it does seem to be diminishing lately. For me, the best thing about the Beats and the Hippies was the art; literature, the music and the visual arts. Burroughs was smart enough to know that mankind can never achieve a real utopia and that the government will always continue to grow and further exert it's power into every aspect of our lives and that violence will always exist, so you may as well learn to defend yourself. He predicted the world as it is today. Maybe that is why he preferred the Punk movement over the Hippies. The Punks were more realistic. Other than the music scene, they weren't trying to change things so much as to point out, through art (and to some degree, lifestyle) that society is shit. It's decedent and evil. This is all a very simplistic view but at the core of things, the Hippies tried to change society through art, lifestyle and political activism. The Punks were a rebellious artistic movement.
buck mcdirt Jeezzz..You guys still exist today ? Ok just to be clear: fucking a 17 year old is not pedophilia. No wonder most genuine murikan artists would enjoy their time while being in my country. Naked lunch was firstly published in France, and we didn't make a fucking fuss about it (or anything about sexuality actually), Usa is far from being a "free" country,depends of who and what you are.... (even in 2016, no offense dude, but lots of you guys are regressive as fuck)...
Great clip, Burroughs seems so sober and perfectly articulate here... He's in his 60s, and I was reading him voraciously tho I saw him as an old man (I would have been in my late teens); now he doesnt look so old in this period, but I sure feel old in many ways. Yet Im still hungry!
@@lastnamefirst4035 Well, Neal was the source. If you read On the Road, (& I think you most likely have), you know that Neal wanted Jack to teach him how to write. Instead, Neal showed Jack how to shine his light.
@@matthewatwood2581 you are right about that. Neal taught everyone alot about a little of everything and he is still teaching us today. "His words do glow with the gold of sunshine"
Jack was one of the biggest inspirations for Bob Dylan, Hunter Thompson, Ken Kesey, Jim Morrison and more. Ever hear a great writer or artist cite Truman Capote as their biggest influence? I haven't
shot his wife dead while trying to hit an apple on her head. of the eccentrics in literature, he stands out big time.I remember him speaking on Nixon .funny.
@@t-bonebigears makes sense as they were imbibing that nite. in fact, w/ out booze , it probably wouldn't have happened. just remembered he was in the film about drug addict thieves .w/ Matt Dillon, 'Drugstore Cowboy'.
@@tonym994 Great movie, Burroughs was a retired priest junkie, so he really didn't have to act just be normal, he seemed to know every drug there ever was up to that time. I wonder what he would say about oxycodine and fentanol?
Fantastic little clip. Father of the Beats and "Hitman for the Apocalypse" with his disdainful, corrosive brilliance on full display. A fine and well deserved tribute to Kerouac.
As far as I know, he did. When told about Dylan being influenced by his writing, Kerouac replied, "Another fucking folk singer". I'm not sure, if Jack had actually heard a Dylan song up to that moment, and he probably was annoyed by his own fame and followers when he said that. I also believe that Kerouac often stated controversial and surprising stuff in order to confuse people (the same way Dylan did). So I guess we'll never know what he actually thought of Bob.
I read that eventually he did hear dylan, and admitted “ok, hes good”, i forget which book i read that in, i think that biography, i think written by a woman, but I’m can’t remember her name, read it twenty years ago. U know allen made him listen to dylan in 62 or 63, before jack turned on allen, allen was all about turning people on to new things.
"On The Road," & "Dharma Bums" - I mean, he was bigger than politics because he was even bigger than economics! He represented FREEDOM in a conformist uptight world. You could live, somehow, without a JOB! Even if it was temporary. You could be homeless w/out being helpless or a victim...the sky was your roof! Sure, it was a little naive & too Buddhist for 1950s-60s-early 70s America, but it gave us some hope for awhile. Look what we've got now.
What I always find fascinating about the head figures in any movement is that the head figures rarely ever want anything to do with the movement they started. Kerouac was the same. Just watched a documentary on Bob Dylan and he wanted nothing to do with it either. Its never what they mean to start out, yet we hold them in such high regard for starting it. Ironic.
i have no idea what happened to my copy of naked lunch but i could never get through it... it reads like the ramblings of a person strung out on crank because it was.
"Penetrating the arab countries" is something Burroughs would know quite a bit about. Don't get me wrong, I love all the Beats, but Bill was definitley the weirdest of the group. Jack himself thought so many times during his life....read Gerald Nicosia's "Memory Babe" the definitive Kerouac biography.
@@MrResearcher122 ...What a word to use in this context. "Druggy". His "Druggy Mind". Well, thanks for letting us know that you are a pro-establishment boot-licker. Don't know why someone like you would even watch the video.
Jan did die young but she most assuredly did not commit suicide. If you're going to pass judgement on a situation you only read about, at least read the informtion correctly.
Kerouac has been mythologically placed on the pedestal of legend. In reality, he died a hate-filled alcoholic racist who would even go so far as burning crosses on people's lawns. I once very much admired him up until I read Gerald Nicosia's biography. A book that is considered one of the best and most complete biographies on Kerouac.
Stereotype or not, more people knew Maynard than Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso, and Snyder combined Yes, Maynard WAS the most influential beatnik!
Don't forget Che Guevara was rolling in Mexico City with Fidelio around the same time period Bill and his wife met up with Kerouac. Curiouser and curiouser the longer I'm alive.
it might seem quite remarkable he quotes jesus, as he would take literary shots at christianity at times in his work, but he did originate among the upper class in the midwest bible belt.
"The early work was in some respects promising - I refer particularly to the short stories. You were granted an area for psychic development. It seemed for a while as if you would make good use of this grant. You choose instead to sell out a talent that is not yours to sell. You have written a dull unreadable book which could have been written by any staff writer on the New Yorker - (an undercover reactionary periodical dedicated to the interests of vested American wealth)." - Burroughs to Capote.
Burroughs also claimed to have put a hex on Capote which was effective, in that Capote never published a book after that. Not only could "IN COLD BLOOD" have been written by any New Yorker staff writer (or at least one willing to witness hanging executions in Kansas) - Capote contrived some of it.
Drugs weren’t healthy for Neal Cassady. If you count alcohol as a drug, it wasn’t good for Jack Kerouac either. They weren’t so healthy for Joan Vollmer either.
I could watch Burroughs talking all day.
though he doesn't have the most mellifluous voice
Man, Burroughs was so smart. One of my heroes, for sure.
So smart and insanely elegant and cool :)
He was a sloppy drunk; he went to a local grocery store where I lived in Florida ... he reeked of vodka.
schizophrenic..
@@barneyronnie Which helped add to his characteristic likeability 😁
Amazing that Burroughs outlived Kerouac and Ginsberg, since he did the most drugs.
Kerouac drank and had cirrhosis of liver. Opiates/opioids don't ruin your intestines, nor anything else. Burroughs was on methadone from 1980 to rest of his life, before that he was on different opiates, on and off. Ginsberg died to liver cancer and got hepatitis from India or somewhere from his journeys.
Kinda like Keith Richards...
The longevity inspired by a nasty disposition
Even more amazing that he concludes his comment with a Christian quote, which demonstrates how close they were and how much he respected Kerouac as a cultural icon. Even a sober man could only wish to be so well-versed about anything during his lifetime.
Burroughs was a survivor. He outlived not just the other Beats but essentially everyone else.
"What Happened to Kerouac" (1986) is a must-see film! ♥ Nice clip.
"By their fruits not by their disclaimers"; damn!
Oh yea...that’s good
It's nice to hear Burroughs outside of his poetic character.
Sal Paradise's "spirit" is still alive in some modern free-thinking minds.
Love his Junky Grin.... unmistakable
*I could listen to these two literary Giants endlessly, especially when they speak of Ti Jean Kerouac!*
Many years ago in the mid-80s, while I was hitchhiking around the country, I saw these two plus Anne Waldman give a talk in Boulder, CO. Burroughs didn't say much, but when he spoke, he was brilliant.
On some Gettysburg Adress. The guy before Abe spoke for 2 hours, what waS it that he said, it's now ,gone with the wind.
@@altagraciaadames3483 Only the good die young.
Burroughs, Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Sidney Goldfarb, Matthews, Hughes, Robert Creeley, and many other amazing writers flocked to Boulder [I was student there in the 70s], for writers conferences and readings and teaching. Goldfarb was a professor there, he was a brilliant poet who brought them there.
@@rd264 The Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics
I need more like this in my recommendations
So true...the counter-culture owes so much to Kerouac's incredible book, its energy was something to be felt indeed, you're one before you read it and one after, as you're one before reading '1984' and one after, and one before reading 'The Great Gatsby' and one after, I can't think of books more influential than those.
Maybe Naked Lunch for simply pushing the sexual envelope.
@@notimportant8736 I read Naked Lunch, I found it on a book giveaway pile at the laundry under my condo, yeah, its great, but I wouldn't put it on the same level as On the Road, that book has a weird energy around, like its magical somehow.
❓ I'm undoubtedly going to come off as dense here, but what do you mean by "you're _one_ before you read it, and you're _one_ afterwards"?
Rest in Peace, Jack. You were misunderstood, taken as a spokesman when you just wanted to celebrate who we are. Sadly, all that road has given way to cloverleaves and Walmarts. It was happening when you and Neil were cruising those roads. The freedom you had was from a beautiful perspective but it was oa changing America.
Yes.
No
I read the book. Seemed to me that it just glorified being a worthless bum.
@@MrWadsox read The Dharma Bums first, then Desolation Angels. On The Road is not his best, IMO.
He wouldn’t mind. He was pro capitalist.
Love his voice!
By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their disclaimers. My god he was such a genius. Who else could make an off the cuff statement like that?
He smirked a little on that one lol
A bible freak?
I love William Burroughs!
love Burroughs
Never seen this before. Thank you!
You're welcome
b was so very eloquent
Hearing Burroughs speak really makes me believe the claim that Dale Gribble's voice was inspired by him.
Burroughs didn't drink like Kerouac.That's what killed Jack, no question.
Wondrous mind, Bill!
Jesus said "By their fruits ye shall know them...not by their disclaimers." (wry smile)
That smile sums up Burroughs personality in a nutshell!
"Not by their disclaimers" is Burroughs' phrase.
Burroughs the coolest of the cool.
I disagree that the changes these movements brought was only temporary. The Beats and the Hippies changed the course of history. It's true that most of the people involved in the Hippie/Young People movement in the sixties have sold out and in many ways, they have become worse than their fathers and grandfathers in terms of greed, lust for power as well as disregard for society, future generations and the environment. What boomer generation did when they were young, taking most of their ideas from the beats, is still having an effect today in many, many small ways, even if it does seem to be diminishing lately. For me, the best thing about the Beats and the Hippies was the art; literature, the music and the visual arts.
Burroughs was smart enough to know that mankind can never achieve a real utopia and that the government will always continue to grow and further exert it's power into every aspect of our lives and that violence will always exist, so you may as well learn to defend yourself. He predicted the world as it is today. Maybe that is why he preferred the Punk movement over the Hippies. The Punks were more realistic. Other than the music scene, they weren't trying to change things so much as to point out, through art (and to some degree, lifestyle) that society is shit. It's decedent and evil. This is all a very simplistic view but at the core of things, the Hippies tried to change society through art, lifestyle and political activism. The Punks were a rebellious artistic movement.
you're a little bit too stereotypical in your approach man... Jesus my Lord...
we're living in the world of naked lunch now, basically, right down to the islam problem (i'll repeat that, problem).
Coolest of the cool? Well, maybe apart from the fact that he killed his wife and was a pedophile.
buck mcdirt Jeezzz..You guys still exist today ? Ok just to be clear: fucking a 17 year old is not pedophilia. No wonder most genuine murikan artists would enjoy their time while being in my country. Naked lunch was firstly published in France, and we didn't make a fucking fuss about it (or anything about sexuality actually), Usa is far from being a "free" country,depends of who and what you are.... (even in 2016, no offense dude, but lots of you guys are regressive as fuck)...
Burroughs always my favourite of the bests. Razor whit
this is awesome.
Jack Kerouac is in my Family Tree .
Very cool .!
His scenes in the Matt Dillon movie "Drugstore Cowboy " are unforgettable.
Naked Lunch was one of the creepiest yet most intriguing book I have ever read
The Bunker on the Bowery, bull's last home in nyc
Try Soft Machine next!
Heroin, the book
Couldn't get through the reading of it as was reviled by the Gay sexual taboo sex practices. But I do love Burroughs', Drugstore Cowboy, anybody?
@@michaelgreen5206 hey fuck you
Cool to see him young and healthy.
Great clip, Burroughs seems so sober and perfectly articulate here... He's in his 60s, and I was reading him voraciously tho I saw him as an old man (I would have been in my late teens); now he doesnt look so old in this period, but I sure feel old in many ways. Yet Im still hungry!
It’s awesome that you never lost your hunger, my friend. Exploring our passions is the key to a fulfilling life.
Brilliant.
The Beat movement is a ripple in still water, with no pebble tossed nor wind to blow.
Eh, more like a hippie grateful dead thing
@@lastnamefirst4035 Or a Neal Cassidy thing.
@@matthewatwood2581 and robert hunter, for he had the words
@@lastnamefirst4035 Well, Neal was the source. If you read On the Road, (& I think you most likely have), you know that Neal wanted Jack to teach him how to write. Instead, Neal showed Jack how to shine his light.
@@matthewatwood2581 you are right about that. Neal taught everyone alot about a little of everything and he is still teaching us today. "His words do glow with the gold of sunshine"
My Father was a Beatnik, 50's San Francisco Coffee Shop's....
Jack was one of the biggest inspirations for Bob Dylan, Hunter Thompson, Ken Kesey, Jim Morrison and more. Ever hear a great writer or artist cite Truman Capote as their biggest influence? I haven't
Who gives a shit? What ax do you have to grind with Capote?
AOB
He famously insulted Kerouac, dummy.
buck mcdirt You'd think Capote insulted you...
You'd think you were Capote with the umbrage you're taking... anyway, more aware posters will understand the reference.
insulted kerouac and proceeded to get himself more n more forgotten....
You can see he's a dangerous man for looking at his eyes.
eyes like Van Gogh actually....
How can someone so unconventional and eccentric look so utterly normal?
Easily, he was born a rich WASP.
love his accent
That's my boy.
What a man,
You make good points .
Bowles , the Grandfather of the Beats outlived them all.
the Beats is a diminutive perjorative Establishment media tag - I hate that tag. Its such a put down.
czcams.com/video/K2tgZCabTzs/video.html I just returned from Tangier ... the Beat myth lingers there.@@rd264 czcams.com/video/naAvLequxCk/video.html
shot his wife dead while trying to hit an apple on her head. of the eccentrics in literature, he stands out big time.I remember him speaking on Nixon .funny.
It was a shot glass..
I think is was said to be a drink.
@@t-bonebigears makes sense as they were imbibing that nite. in fact, w/ out booze , it probably wouldn't have happened. just remembered he was in the film about drug addict thieves .w/ Matt Dillon, 'Drugstore Cowboy'.
@@tonym994 Great movie, Burroughs was a retired priest junkie, so he really didn't have to act just be normal, he seemed to know every drug there ever was up to that time. I wonder what he would say about oxycodine and fentanol?
@@t-bonebigears that's a good question. all I know is that it'd be said slowly.
It's wild to me that Burroughs lived till his late 80s and was a dope fiend, Kerouac drank himself to death at what, 47? Goes to show...
"always room for one more"_______ BB
Have a postcard from this great man....
Fantastic little clip. Father of the Beats and "Hitman for the Apocalypse" with his disdainful, corrosive brilliance on full display. A fine and well deserved tribute to Kerouac.
Thanks for the praise/validation
By their fruits you shall know them ♥️
What exactly are their fruits?
their results, their works, deeds. @@elkar92
the coolest guy ever, he was in lecumberry jail here in Mexico
You can see the intelligence in his eyes
As far as I know, he did. When told about Dylan being influenced by his writing, Kerouac replied, "Another fucking folk singer". I'm not sure, if Jack had actually heard a Dylan song up to that moment, and he probably was annoyed by his own fame and followers when he said that. I also believe that Kerouac often stated controversial and surprising stuff in order to confuse people (the same way Dylan did). So I guess we'll never know what he actually thought of Bob.
He was smashed.
I read that eventually he did hear dylan, and admitted “ok, hes good”, i forget which book i read that in, i think that biography, i think written by a woman, but I’m can’t remember her name, read it twenty years ago. U know allen made him listen to dylan in 62 or 63, before jack turned on allen, allen was all about turning people on to new things.
Dylan is a folk singer, so he ain't wrong.
JACK Kerouac was a Conservative Republican who inspired a democratic hippie revolution, that is eternal irony 🙄 🤔 🤣 😆 😜 😉 🙄 🤔
Smart man.
I've only ever read 1 book by Jack Kerouac. So you see my life hasn't been a complete waste of time after all.
Why am i grinding my teeth watching this? I feel itchy!
"On The Road," & "Dharma Bums" - I mean, he was bigger than politics because he was even bigger than economics! He represented FREEDOM in a conformist uptight world. You could live, somehow, without a JOB! Even if it was temporary. You could be homeless w/out being helpless or a victim...the sky was your roof! Sure, it was a little naive & too Buddhist for 1950s-60s-early 70s America, but it gave us some hope for awhile. Look what we've got now.
Kerouac is immortal.
Daniel Anduze and cliche as well as overrated.
Yes
@@chrisconley8583 I could never come to terms with the idea of cliche. With your nonsensical logic calling something cliche has become cliche.
@@bboyafro1 such an edgy retort and well,... very cliche of you.
@@chrisconley8583 Is being alive cliche?
The inventor of "cut and paste". "Literary Outlaw" by Ted Morgan, essential reading.
Yes
A documentary about Keruoac I can't remember the name. Gregory Corso says some HILARIOUS shit on it though it came out about 1994
Watch this at half speed!
herion either kills you quick or makes you live to become an ancient
What I always find fascinating about the head figures in any movement is that the head figures rarely ever want anything to do with the movement they started. Kerouac was the same. Just watched a documentary on Bob Dylan and he wanted nothing to do with it either. Its never what they mean to start out, yet we hold them in such high regard for starting it. Ironic.
My sense is they recognized the labels acted as shelf life dates and wanted to stay relevant past the movements they started.
i have no idea what happened to my copy of naked lunch but i could never get through it... it reads like the ramblings of a person strung out on crank because it was.
same.and i've read Joyce. Beckett told Burroughs that what he did wasnt really writing.
reminds me of Dr.William Pierce
many decades after the drugs had taken hold.
Although he may have been on a drug holiday (which for him meant weed an no booze until 5PM.)
I'm sure the beats, two of whom I have met, would be very impressed with your advert inclusion. How tawdry!
You might not know but the lead singer of the stone temple pilots Scott Weiland loved William very much.
Burroughs and his young boys
When i see this man i think of talking posteriors
Big uncle Billy...
254 subs. 364 thousand views. Now that's exposure.
The only "Satori" Jack ever had, was hitting his eye on a bottle of Scotch. Oh poor Jean!
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom...You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough." - William Blake
"Penetrating the arab countries" is something Burroughs would know quite a bit about. Don't get me wrong, I love all the Beats, but Bill was definitley the weirdest of the group. Jack himself thought so many times during his life....read Gerald Nicosia's "Memory Babe" the definitive Kerouac biography.
That verb-penetrate- had erotic connotations. It might have leapt on his tongue as an image of his Tangiers days flashed on his druggy mind.
@@MrResearcher122 ...What a word to use in this context. "Druggy". His "Druggy Mind".
Well, thanks for letting us know that you are a pro-establishment boot-licker. Don't know why someone like you would even watch the video.
Jan did die young but she most assuredly did not commit suicide. If you're going to pass judgement on a situation you only read about, at least read the informtion correctly.
True, according to wikipedia she died after surgery.
Kidney failure; she was a dear friend ...
Kerouac has been mythologically placed on the pedestal of legend. In reality, he died a hate-filled alcoholic racist who would even go so far as burning crosses on people's lawns. I once very much admired him up until I read Gerald Nicosia's biography. A book that is considered one of the best and most complete biographies on Kerouac.
Gibberish
“They got the
Steely Dan Tee shirts”
I hope Florida and Texas do not ban his books 📚 from libraries and schools. 😢
WWWWWWwOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW : that is great and strong!!!
I am not joking
The most influential beatnik was Maynard G. Krebs.
Bullshit, Krebs was just a TV stereotype.
Stereotype or not, more people knew Maynard than Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs, Corso, and Snyder combined Yes, Maynard WAS the most influential beatnik!
Being known isn't the same as being influential, in fact there's probably an inverse relationship to some extent.
Only in the stupid way that Giligan was influential, but it is a good joke - “Work!”
Oswald Bates was the originator - - - czcams.com/video/9ROOi5xagxg/video.html
The movement came full when Kurt Cobain stepped into Burroughs orgone box.
yeah I see the irony of mentioning syntax on a Burroughs clip mentioning Keruoac, well done, how Ironic.
yeah i am! that's why i asked, sounds like somewhere bill burroughs would've loved...
Don't forget Che Guevara was rolling in Mexico City with Fidelio around the same time period Bill and his wife met
up with Kerouac. Curiouser and curiouser the longer I'm alive.
Burroughs fully appreciated Kerouac -quite a contrast to the media and Establishment flunkies who obviously feared Kerouac and put him down .
"Father Tom ".
The book started it.
it might seem quite remarkable he quotes jesus, as he would take literary shots at christianity at times in his work, but he did originate among the upper class in the midwest bible belt.
"No Exit."
Selby, another great writer!
That'd be
What Happened to Kerouac? (1986) imdb.com/title/tt0090312
"By their fruits you shall know them" - Jesus was talking about false prophets. Was Burroughs knowingly doing the same?
No, buy there fruits means by their deeds, the use of disclaimers is only an attempt at humour.
Yes, of course I know what it means. I just wondered if it was a pointed reference, given its biblical context.
Uhhh, context . . .
"That's not writing, that's typing" Capote on Kerouac.
"Capote can suck a lemon." - Me
hahahaha fair enough.
"The early work was in some respects promising - I refer particularly to the short stories. You were granted an area for psychic development. It seemed for a while as if you would make good use of this grant. You choose instead to sell out a talent that is not yours to sell. You have written a dull unreadable book which could have been written by any staff writer on the New Yorker - (an undercover reactionary periodical dedicated to the interests of vested American wealth)." - Burroughs to Capote.
Burroughs also claimed to have put a hex on Capote which was effective, in that Capote never published a book after that. Not only could "IN COLD BLOOD" have been written by any New Yorker staff writer (or at least one willing to witness hanging executions in Kansas) - Capote contrived some of it.
I'd like to tell Capote, "I've read all of Jack's books and one of yours."
Man, Burroughs is brilliant. No, *is.*
That verb-penetrate- had erotic connotations. It might have leapt on his tongue as an image of his Tangiers days flashed on his druggy mind.
By their fruits yeah shall know them says Mr. I Missed The Apple 🍏
Shot glass, pistol, wife's head. William Tell legend was apple, crossbow, son's head (which isn't a thing that actually happened either).
@@Bert2368 he knows, you pedant
@@Jamie-js3qw
He's had too much meat of the black scorpion and thinks this is Interzone.
Which beats were lovers? I know Burroughs and Ginsberg were. What about Kerouac? Cassidy?
Cassady shagged everyone but kerouac, men and women alike.
@@davidtingley9978 thx
@@davidtingley9978 did kerouac sleep w any men?
Gay?
@@barneyronnie no
!!!!
He sounds like William F. Buckley.
Drugs weren’t healthy for Neal Cassady. If you count alcohol as a drug, it wasn’t good for Jack Kerouac either. They weren’t so healthy for Joan Vollmer either.
I once believed in the purity of literature.
evidence, sir ?