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sugared said:
sugared said:
Yeah? I have someone close to me who loves his works too and is his main inspiration for some of the poetry he's had published. I just started reading "on the road."Holy Devil said:my favorite author.![]()
sugared said:Yeah? I have someone close to me who loves his works too and is his main inspiration for some of the poetry he's had published. I just started reading "on the road."
yeah well.... he's a high school beatnik tooHoly Devil said:I first read on the road when I was in high school. If I had not read that book, I would have remained a NERD forever. Now I'm forever a beatnik at heart.![]()
sugared said:I love the iris' but... what is with that... crayon bird![]()
sugared said:You have the bestest pictures! I always find myself looking at them for a while.
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You're too cuteOf course it's okay!!
sugared said:
sugared said:yeah well.... he's a high school beatnik toowhether or not nerd and beatnik are in the same category is well...... debatable. *hears bongos in the background*
In the mid-1940s Burroughs befriended Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, with whom he would be linked as key figures in the Beat Movement. He was named in Kerouac' s novel On the Road as Old Bull Lee. In 1951 Burroughs accidently killed his second wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico. They were partying in a room above a bar when he announced to the assembled company he would perform a shooting in the Wilhelm Tell style. Vollmer placed a glass on top of her head, and Burrougs shot at it with the gun he carried - Vollmer fell dead. Burroughs was never tried for the accident. Their son William Burroughs III died at the age of 32 from drink and drug abuse. The author has stated, 'Im forced to the appalling conclusion that I would never have become a writer but for Joan's death...'