BURROUGHS ON ALLEN GINSBERG & WILLIAM BLAKE

[bapyou]

I could listen to William Burroughs speak all night long.

[natmanprime]

blake yes...eternity in the palm of your hand he's talking about irrational numbers, which is the true nature of the universe if you accept your own being (you don't have to by the way)

perception=rationality=rationa­lization

[CTY801CTY]

@natmanprime

Go read the Blake-Feyerabend hypothesis. It's by an Australian Philosopher, Timb Hoswell I think his name is.

- He talks about exactly the same thing.

[natmanprime]

@CTY801CTY how do you know I haven't?

Are you assuming that I'm original?

Why thank you for the compliment!

: )

although I don't see why you'd make such an assumption...

?

[CTY801CTY]

@natmanprime

It's mind blowing stuff hey?

What'd you think about the Mathematical proof at the end about Darwin and religion? I was like noooo way! How crazy is that?

You know they published a second edition of The Blake-Feyerabend Hypothesis, hey?

I think he's right, how like he talks about imagination and creativity being the primal foundation and source for knowledge, and that stuff about God being inside of man's creativity is straight out of Blake.

[natmanprime]

@CTY801CTY proofs aren't crazy.

proofs aren't 'about' things, they're OF things.

why aren't you more specific?

You coulda got all that stuff off of the blurb.

And the reviews.

I'm getting disappointed in you...

: (

[ataraxia7557]

@natmanprime

So you've read the Blake Feyerabend Hypothesis? What is it, a book? What's it about, and why are all the Christians and Athiests going wacko on it? It's got something to do with William Blake hasn't it?

[natmanprime]

@ataraxia7557 Well, it's a book, as you seem to have already guessed...(?)

this other guy CTY801CTY seems to be the expert, but he's casting doubts now ...

[ataraxia7557]

@CTY801CTY

So is it a book, a video, a documentary? What is the Blake-Feyerabend hypothesis about? There are like forums and debates all over the net between Athiests and Christians on it, but no one seems to know what it is, just that it has something to do with William Blake, Philosophy, and Evolution.

Do you have a link or something?

[SLiCpoetry]

crazy....I had a similar experience with Blake...

[dnggitg]

Every time I see footage of Burroughs or hear a recording of him speaking I just really like him.

[nizzle23]

I call it "Morphine Voice"

[gttn3]

exactly, heroin voice, from a deviated person

[SmileOnADog]

I love his voice- It's part wisdom, part intelligence, part weary and topped off with poetic truth.

[Jules242]

I couldn't agree more.

[here2go]

sweet. Thank you for that

[PenCenterUSA]

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[aintpluggedin]

is there an extension to this?

[marycigarettes]

i love this formidable intelligent sweet sweet man

[aintpluggedin]

i agree with you mary. many times ive seen him on film and he smiles a lot and really seems so basically good natured

[myradioon]

Sweet - not always. Actually, I think he was slightly bi-polar or something. You obviously haven't seen the clips where he was stockpiling weapons in the 70's in his cement Bunker" in NYC- and hacking his chest of drawers with a sword! Or him playing a deranged blood soaked doctor in his experimental films. He could be volatile too- like most great minds.

[marycigarettes]

oh i HAVE soaked up the rest of his story......but he WAS a sweetheart..the only time he ever did anyone harm was his wife...and that was an accident.....the work is deranged,but not him,not even in the throws of heroin..he knew exactly what he was up to.......people close to him loved him and were fiercely protective of him.

[crlxc]

in on the road kerouac talks of burroughs' doing things for the experience. but always remaining constant underneath