William Burroughs hanging Alan Ansen, take-off on "Naked Lunch" "Blue Movie" orgasm scenario. Ansen'd typed up where Kerouac left off...
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subject_titleWilliam Burroughs hanging Alan Ansen, take-off on "Naked Lunch" "Blue Movie" orgasm scenario. Ansen'd typed up where Kerouac left off...
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subject_titleJack Kerouac, Villa Mouneria Garden Wall, Tangier—he’d preceded me & Peter O. on Yugoslav freighter by a month to help Type Burroughs’ Interzone “word-board” manuscript assembled for Naked Lunch. Jack left for Paris a week and a half later, On the Road published earlier that year—he’d already written twelve books, Visions, Dreams, Blues, in the “Legend of Duluoz” series, up to Desolation Angels Part I, late 1957.
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subject_titlePeter Orlovsky & Jack Kerouac squinting in late-afternoon sun, Wm. S. Burroughs with eyeglasses watching prone in olive-green army-surplus jacket, Moroccan boys interested, Port & Custom-house in background, where Peter & I docked on Yugoslave freighter from N.Y. carrying mss. _Naked Lunch_ letters, four years accumulated. Jack speed-typed Burroughs' _Interzone_ word-hoard, his own _On the Road_ just published, Peter readying to write his "Frist Poem." Jack left Tangier for Paris about a week later, April 5, 1957.
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subject_titlePeter Orlovsky legs crossed mysterious-haired, W.S. Burroughs with camera & hat shading Mediterranean sun, Myself white pants earnest, Alan Ansen...visiting from Venezia to help type new apocalyptic cut-up overflow material from Naked Lunch, Gregory Corso sunglasses & Minox’d, a gambler at casino, Ian Sommerville assisting sound-collage electronics & stroboscope alpha-rhythm. Dream Machine experiments with Bill B. & Brian Gysen then in town, Paul Bowles squinting in bright / mid-day light seated on ground, all assembled outside Bill’s single room, Villa Muniria Garden, / my camera in Michael Portman’s hands, Tangier March-July 1961.
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subject_titleJack Kerouac wandering along East 7th Street after visiting Burroughs at our pad, passing statue of Congressman Samuel "Sunset" Cox, "The Letter-Carrier's Friend" in Tompkins Square toward corner of Avenue A, Lower East Side; he's making a Dostoyevsky mad-face or Russian basso be-bop Om, first walking around the neighborhood, then involved with _The Subterraneans_, pencils & notebook in wool shirt-pockets, Fall 1953, Manhattan.
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subject_titlePeter Orlovsky seated handsome mysterious-haired, William Burroughs thoughtful with hat to shade Mediterranean sun, camera in hand, Alan Ansen relaxed visiting from Venice to help type _The Soft Machine_ cut-up writings, Gregory Corso sunglassed and Minox’d, Paul Bowles with elegant striped tie squinting in bright mid-morning light—all assembled, myself on right with cigarette & white trousers, at garden wall outside Bill’s single room Villa Muniria, my Kodak Retina probably in Michael Portman’s hands July 1961 Tangier Moroc.
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subject_titleWilliam Burroughs on roof of apartment house East Seventh Street where I had a flat, we were lovers those months, editing his letters into books not published till decades later (as _Queer_, 1985) Lower East Side Fall 1953.
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subject_titlePhilip Whalen visiting Lloyd Reynolds, his house Reed College- Lloyd had taught Snyder Welch & Whalen their Italic Calligraphy & Challenged McCarthyism & brought W.C. Williams to read, early 1950's. Here late July 1963, Portland Oregon.
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subject_titleWise-eyed Alan Ansen, Polymath expatriate & eccentric, at San Sammuelle motorscaffe station, half-street from his apartment 3219 della Carrozza where Peter Orlovsky & I spent happy summer 1957- Ansen also hosted Wm. Burroughs & Gregory Corso. Harvard Classics summa cum laude 1942, Poet, critic, he was secretary & Prosodic Conscience to W.H. Auden during early 40’s _Age of Anxiety_, thereafter lifelong intimate of Auden & companion Chester Kallman-- as with William Burroughs whose _Naked Lunch_ & later ravings he helped type & edit in Tangier 1957 & 1961. A familiar at San Remo village bar & Kerouac's companions' revels in late 1940's, he's sketched as "Rollo Grab" in _On the Road_, "Ronald Swenson" in _Visons of Cody_ and _Book of Dreams_, "Austin Bromberg" in _The Subterraneans_ & Amadeus Baroque, _Doctor Sex_....
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subject_titleGregory Corso, Paul Bowles, William Burroughs, behind him shades of Ian Summerville, Cambridge mathematics student, Bill’s cut-up tech assistant, and Michael Portman, eighteen-year-old Public School aristocrat admirer of _Naked Lunch_, the two staying in rooms adjacent to Bill’s, both early deceased — here under the wall of Bill’s garden. All took cameras out beneath blue sky, bright sunny day, Villa Muniria, Tangier August 1961.
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subject_titleJack Kerouac at Staten Island Ferry Wharf, we used to wander docksides under Manhattan’s bridges & thru truck parking lots along East River singing rawbone Blues, Leadbelly’s “Black Girl” or “Eli Eli,” chanting Poe’s “Annabelle Lee” & shouting Hart Crane’s “O Harp & Altar of the Fury fused!” or “Atlantis” to Brooklyn Bridge’s traffic spanned above. Time of his _Doctor Sax_ & _The Subterraneans_, Burroughs was in town, up from Mexico, New York, Fall 1953.
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subject_titleJack Kerouac 1953 Seen through window sill lined with books, from Fire Escape 206 E. 7 St. N.Y.C. He was living or writing Subterraneans
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