Done With Burroughs

[robby]

I've read more than I wanted to know. Very depressing. His son died at an early age, alone in a ditch, of alcoholism and drug addiction. I'm on to something else, not dark and evil.

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[rfmcdpei.livejournal.com]

After reading Naked Lunch, I was impressed mainly by the extent to which Burroughs seemed to really dislike women. (His wife's death made more sense.)

[robby.livejournal.com]

He didn't seem to care about anyone or anything. Until he was 50, his parents supported him, and enabled him to live beyond the pale. I stopped reading at the point he killed his wife, and then went to the internet and learned the fate of his poor neglected son.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

Burroughs is the most interesting of the Beats from a literary POV -- at least to me. I don't have any use of Kerouac or Ginsberg. Burroughs should never have fathered children -- that much is for sure. But I can't condemn his literary output based on that. Some of his collage stuff is extraordinary.

[robby.livejournal.com]

That's an important point. Nice guys don't make good beatniks.