In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’s grand cut-up trilogy, which began with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express, reaches its climax as Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet.
From William Burroughs, cult author of ‘Naked Lunch’, the second title in his classic ‘Cut-Up Trilogy’.
In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs’s grand “cut-up” trilogy that starts with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express reaches its climax as inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive ...
It’s up to Inspector Lee of the Nova Police to attack and dismantle the word and imagery machine of these “control addicts” before it’s too late. This surrealist novel is part sci-fi, part Swiftian parody, and always pure Burroughs.
... 197 Teasdale, Sara, 196–97, 200 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks (band), 86 Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 24, 381n15, ... 374,375; original edition of, 369–70, 372–73, 377; the Other Half, 373; publication history, 305,310,315, 369–70, ...
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will take us even further into the dark recesses of his imagination, a region where nothing is sacred, nothing taboo.
Combining new material with rearranged selections from Naked Lunch and his cut-up novels The Soft Machine and The Ticket That Exploded, the book is a fascinating precursor to remix and mash-up forms in art and music, which owe much to ...
Ticket that Exploded
Rub out the word . Castaneda in The Teachings of Don Juan stresses the need to suspend the inner dialog — rub out the word — and gives precise exercises designed to attain a wordless state . Rub out the word — laughable if you will ...
As satirist and parodist, William Burroughs has no peer, as these varied works, written over three decades, amply reveal.
Whether they tell of him exploring the occult with David Bowie, providing Lou Reed with gritty depictions of street life, or counseling Patti Smith about coping with fame, the stories of Burroughs's backstage impact will transform the way ...