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ISBN ? (US pbk)
non-fiction, correspondence, routines, south america, yage, psychedelics, drugs, consciousness
One of Burroughs' routines, "Roosevelt After the Inaugaration", was cut from the published edition. This routine was subsequently published by Ed Sanders' Fuck You Press, New York, US, 1965.
"William Burroughs writing to Allen Ginsberg about his self-experimentation with the reputedly telepathic South American plant Yage". --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).
"Destined for Interzone, Burroughs embarked on the yage trip and the city of the future came to him, teeming with drugs and diseases from the future. Yage is space-time travel, passing through nausea into information overload, too much speed. Urban scenes from the yage letters first infect the naked lunch, and continue to spread. Cities of the red night propogate themselves virally across the planet, reprogramming the soft machine, and implanting strange thoughts. Burroughs emerges from the convergence of drugs and disease. The plague begins to transmit information." --Sadie Plant and Nick Land (from "Cyberpositive" in Unnatural , UK pbk, 1994).
Unofficial William Burroughs Homepage
(another site worth a look-see)
The William S.Burroughs Files
(check Malcolm Humes' excellent links to all things Burroughs at his InterNetWebZone)