Reviewer:
framerAte -
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December 12, 2005
Subject:
some dreams seem rather dull
Cont. from Part One, a lecture that rambles along like the loosely connected ramblings of an old man. A very interesting old man, mind you, but nonetheless...
Here Burroughs continues to address and tangentalize from audience questions in a free dialogue. The audience is largely interested in Burrough's writing process, which he relates to meditative states, dreams, precognition, hunches.
There is a particularly interesting segment when Anne Waldman and others question Burroughs about his apparent commitment as an artist to "waking people up". Burroughs responds matter-of-factly, as we might expect...