As our attentive reader has already noted, we love and respect William Seward Burrose. In the heading “Book Regiment of Theo” you have already read his advice to the writer , a story about a car to make desires and instructions for the correct reading of books. Today, the day finally came when he will take his rightful place among the dictators of the week.
“As a child, I wanted to be a writer because the writers were rich and famous.
They dangled in Singapore and Rangun, smoking an opium in yellow eondo silk costumes. They sniffed cocaine into Mafer and penetrated the forbidden swamps, accompanied by a faithful local boy, lived in the Arab quarters of Tanger, smoked hash and languidly stroked gazelles. ” "Mektub" - as it is written, so intended, so it happened with Billy.
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After in 1936, Burrose out of Harvard, his parents set him a contents of $ 200 per month (a fairly large amount for that time). Billy never learned to earn a honest way - not counting literature. However, he repeatedly tried. The most crazy undertaking seems to be his desire to become a farmer. Peas, salad-lighting, carrots, cotton, tomatoes and hemp (for personal use and for all bonnet friends)-this is what Billy Fairmer raised in his garden and tried to sell in the late 40s. In a letter to Ginzberg, who, having released from Colombian University, could not find any work except the newsletter and a dishwasher, Burroughs wrote: “Search for well -paid work in our time is a continuous disappointment. Now only techies are in demand. Developed mental abilities are an extremely undesirable characteristic. (I'm talking about you, of course, I'm not looking for a job). ” From other professions, Burrose tried himself as a disinfector, Barygi, Bukholova (to defeat drunk in the subway), a teacher (“Work with zero return”), an essyist and a reporter.
In New York, Billy sniffed with Allen Ginzberg and Jack Keruak, and this company later became the cornerstone that underlies American counter-culture.
Bill was older and more experienced, possessed Harvard degree and serious experience in the adoption of prohibited substances. Kerouac was like the captain of the football team: the embodiment of the American dream, the sweet dream of all housewives, but at the same time the rebel and a refuter of public values. Literary success came to him before everyone else, with the release of his novel “On the Road”. Kerouac was never gay, did not use too severe drugs, was married three times and is very attached to his mother. Why did he hopelessly drank by forty -seven years (despite the fact that it was at that time that was the most famous battleship) and died of throat bleeding, which had been overlooking cirrhosis, is difficult to understand. Allen Ginzberg, on the other hand, was extremely unreasonably looking Jewish guy, who loved smoking grass and chew Payit, with pronounced homosexual inclinations and - as it turned out later - an outstanding commercial booty. He brought to a bit of the idea of Hinduism and Buddhism, he became the godly father of all hippies, and his poem “Howl” is considered one of the main pillars of battle and all American poetry of the twentieth century. It was thanks to Ginzberg Jack that became a star, and Billy - a published writer who finally defeated American censorship. The process over the obscenity of the “naked breakfast”, which was defended by Ginzberg and Norman Meyler in court, became the last major censorship process in the United States and completed the history of liberalization of literature, which began with ships over the “tropics” of Henry Miller. The defenders proved that, despite the scenes with the murder of children and pedophilia, the book is of outstanding public significance.
Considering the life and career of Burrose, to do without the frequent references of Allen Ginzberg, with whom Bill had the most warm and at times very difficult relations, is impossible. It was thanks to Ginzberg that the narcotic hallucinations of the Burrose, who rested in the Tanger, were able to turn into a pearl of a “bare breakfast”. Burrose moved from the hotel to the hotel, printed on which he hit, did not observe any sequence: he simply threw the papers into the suitcase, and sometimes simply left them where he would have to. Ginzberg from time to time visited Burrose and performed a tour of all his parking lots, collecting the romance literally by crumbs - taking it out of garbage baskets and with cluttered shelves. In order to somehow streamline Bill’s papers, Allen gave him a special box for papers: this gift was the beginning of Burrose's disciplined writing. Over time, his style became more and more chaotic, but work on the text acquired an almost scientific character - specially different notebooks were carried out, in which he collected his dreams, memories and news. In the race of longevity, Allen significantly outlined Jack and died at seventy years just a few months before the death of our main character. And if Ginzberg helped Burrose to become a published and paid writer, then Brian Gaysin is to find his style and his voice, streamline the searches and be carried away by the mystical mountain old man Hassan ibn Sabbach.
In fact, Billy was inclined to scientific thinking, and therefore was fond of general semantics, futuristic technologies, alternative scientific and psychological theories, and he was very good with formal logic. However, his mind was not destined to develop properly due to the fact that he for a long time and seriously used opium-containing substances, longing for a long time on one or another side, looking at the boots standing by the bed for hours. Such studies of boots contribute to astral travel, from where Billy brought us mutants and the statement that the only obstacle to travel to space is our own body. However, he clearly lacked the time to move brains and think with consistent abstract categories. You can argue for a long time about the causes and origins of such a torn style of narrative. Some will say that
Heroin simply melted Billy brains, so he could not write and think coherently.
Others will refer to the companion of Burrose Brian Gaysin, who claimed that literature lagged behind the painting for half a century and therefore should lose its connectedness and structuralness, and Billy's prose is just that, without communication and without structure, or rather, with the endless variability of ties and structures. The method of slices, which is charged with Billy as its main literary achievement and with which its main works were written, was formulated and invented by Gaisin: “Cut the pages of any books, cut newspaper strips along, for example, and shuffle the columns of the text. Follow them together at random and read the new message received. Do it for yourself. Use any system that asks by the arm. Take your own words or “very personal words” of any of the living or the dead. You will soon understand that the words do not belong to anyone. ”
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Immediately after graduating from the university, Billy traveled around Europe, spin mainly in the marginal and golden circles of homosexuals, drug addicts and other exiles, among whom he also met a Jewish girl named Ilsa Clapper. To help her avoid Nazi repressions in Germany, Billy entered a fictitious marriage with her and helped to get permission to enter the United States. After arriving in America, they quickly divorced and remained friends for a long time. Billy actually can be called a very touching and kind small, if there was no other, completely indifferent and detached side in it, because of which his family life turned into a full disaster, covering his heart with a heavy load.
In 1944, Bill began to live with his companion named Joan Volmer in the apartment, which they rented with his wife Jack Kerouac. After some time, they got married, and Joan, who already had a daughter from another marriage, gave birth to Billy Jr. Despite his homosexual orientation and ongoing relations with men, Burrose, it seems, really loved his wife, which did not prevent them from quarreling and scandaling.
Burrose always carried a weapon with him and slept with a pistol under the pillow. In order not to worry, he just kept all his causals charged all the time. Bill passionately loved the weapon, not only firearms, studied the techniques of ownership of cold weapons, the rules for conducting street battle, pain and vital points on the body of the opponent, and so on. He said that it is always necessary to have three levels of protection, implying, say, a gun, a baton and a knife. Hunter S. Thompson gave Burrose the largest gun with an optical sight at that time. The last book trilogy “Red Night” is replete with descriptions of weapons of all stripes, of course, endless and incoherent sexual acts, cosmos mutants and bandits for every taste.
One evening, Billy sang praises of Mexico and told how they would remain in it and how he would hunt large animals - this will be the main craft in his life. The wife answered these fantasies very coldly, saying that if the family had to depend on the hunting skills of Billy, everyone would soon die of hunger. Of course, these conversations were flavored with a significant amount of alcohol and who knows what else, but this did not bother Bill, who decided to prove to his wife and those present that he was at least somewhere. So, they decided to play in William Tele. Joan put an apple on his head, and Bill, stepping over a sufficient distance, turned and shot. The apple has remained intact and unharmed, but the wife fell to the floor with a shot head.
It’s quickly to collect suitcases, howl of sirens, Billy smokes nervously: at first the main thing is not to sit down because of William Tele to prison, and we’ll figure it out with everything else. Burrose, thanks to the family position, had access to a good lawyer, and together they came up with a story at which the gun shot quite by accident, just when Billy checked - was it not charged? Ballistic experts were also bribed, and the case seemed in the hat. However, Bill, without waiting for a court decision, set off on an expedition to South America in search of the legendary psychedelic drug Yaga, who opened psychic abilities and, possibly, was a way to survive the tragic murder. At the same time, Burrose began to write his first novel called “Pidor”. According to his own admission, if not for the fatal shot, he would most likely never become a writer. This does not mean at all that the murder of a spouse can make a person a writer. This simply means that a person who has made an irreparable mistake can become a writer and is trying to atone for his whole life or somehow forget it. Billy himself said that a person without such an injury, a person with a pure conscience and without the experience of fatal mistakes cannot be trusted in matters of morality.
He preferred young gigols to his personal relations, whose services he used, wherever he went: in New York, London, Paris, Tangere, South America and Mexico. Gigolo did not burden the relationship with feelings, and Bill was only for, because all his loves were exclusively dramatic. Once, because of the unfortunate love for the young man, he cut off a piece of the little finger. Subsequently, Burroughs loved to talk about African tribes, in which the little finger on his feet falls off as a rudimentary process. “It is assumed that a homosexual can be treated so that he will begin to sexually respond to a woman - or to an old boot, for that matter. In fact, both homo- and heterosexual subjects were treated so that they sexually reacted to the old boot; So you can save a lot of money. ”
“You understand that sitting in my room I felt free with the old sergeant Hashik when you have to move, you need to talk in a corner, I don’t need to go in a corner in the film of your speeches.” Police stubbornly want to talk with Billy, at every opportunity they are with a search for drugs, but the cat is experienced: he does not keep anything at home, neither in New York, nor in Tanger. When Bill was visiting Jack Kerouac, he, despite Billy's requests, hid a decent supply of tanger grass right in the center of Bill’s room. Bill discovered Jack's grass before she was discovered by Tanger's cops, and was firmly offended by Jack.
Billy in a hot Mexican bar tries not to think about boys and morphine. Billy is very difficult, and after several weeks it gets to the point that some internal organs stop working as it should, through the pores on the skin, Billy begins to ooze the urine, an intolerable stench comes from Billy, it passes through the test of Job. “Professor of non -being, the body is evidence of the spirit. Natural key. We are the language here. "
As a child, the housekeeper introduced little Billy with opium. Approximately then his first homosexual contacts occurred, presumably with older men. There were unhappy loves, for example, in a cousin or in fellow practitioners. When he studied at Los Alamos, he was burned in touch with the boy-and he fled from there. Things, among which there was a diary with the “SALL WITHERS”, asked to be transferred by mail, and receiving - immediately “censored” and destroyed everything that contained the “compromising”. Homosexuality, as subsequently, drug addiction, inevitably led Billy to the theory of “Society of Control”, which Delez later picked up and developed by the notorious Gilles.
Control is an irresistible craving for food, sleep, sex. The control limit is a drug, or insulin, or any other chemical dependence.
The drug addict differs from the patient only in that he voluntarily fell ill, but if he got sick - he got into the control system and now he certainly cannot be considered healthy. Not because, of course, the society does not recognize him, but because he turned into a biomechanism serving the next dose.
Govnyuki put their nose in other people's affairs. The Johnson family never climbs into other people's affairs. Johnsons are connected with each other not by blood ties, but by attitude to life. They observe the main rule: leave everyone alone and do your business, do not stick your nose into other people's affairs. Johnsons are not infected with a virus that struck all democrats and religious fanatics - the rightness virus, they do not claim the truth in the last instance. They are inconspicuous and responsive, they will always come to the rescue if another Johnson or just a person fell into trouble. Having done their job, they are silently deleted, do not require recognition and gratitude. Unfortunately, there are almost no Johnsons in America. Laws forced to convey to suspicious neighbors are compiled and respected by shit, infected with the virus of innocence. “The only thing that is capable of uniting our entire planet is a planetary space program ... The Earth turns into a space station, and the war simply disappears from the agenda, even the thought of it turns into madness in the context of research centers, spaceport, a delightful sensation arising from joint work with people who are deeply respectful for their own, definite according to mutual agreement goals - goals that will benefit everyone who can achieve them. Happiness is a by -product of meaningful activity. The planetary space station provides all members of its crew with the opportunity to act meaningfully. ” When Burrose at that time said that among his letters he lies one with the head of the White House and looks important, he replied that this was just some kind of advertising. When the letter was printed, it turned out that Bill Clinton was calling him to read poetry in the White House. Bill only grunted and asked: “Who is our president today?”
Charles Bukovsky called himself “Beer-Drining Machine”, and William Burrose can be called “Drug-Processing Machine”.
By the way, both writers converged in their vision of the control society, just Bill was much more sophisticated and intellectual than Hank. Bukovsky has a story in which he describes a meeting with Burrose, more precisely, the lack of a meeting and all contact. Both of them toured with literary readings, both were on their minds and both adored cats. So Bee simply describes how Burrose passed him, and none of them moved towards each other, but everyone noticed the presence of another famous writer. They parted on that, pouring each other with feline with either contempt or respect.
When drug addicts came to Bill in the Bunker to prick together, he always pricked the first - and so survived from AIDS. For many years he tried to recover from control and repeatedly got into state clinics of control treatment, but after them it became only worse. Finally, in England, Bill met Dr. Dent, who practiced unconventional, but quite scientific treatment from control with the help of apomorphine. Billy liked this treatment so much that his laudatory ode to Dent and Apomorphine in the form of an article began to precede all publications of his first novel “Janka”. Billy, in the width, advised friends and acquaintances to the apomorphine departure from control and even convinced Keith Richards and a couple of famous control-dependent guys to undergo Dr. Denta. “Drug addiction is a disease, and it concerns the police no more than tuberculosis or radiation poisoning. Американский департамент по борьбе с наркотиками существует только за счёт отношения к наркомании как к преступлению и настаивает на наказании зависимых, а не на лечении».
Неоднократно Билли замечал, что его настоящие проблемы начались тогда, когда тяжёлые наркотики стали незаконными. Зато когда 3 декабря 1973 года Американская психиатрическая ассоциация постановила, что гомосексуальность — не болезнь, по крайней мере в этом отношении Билли стало дышаться полегче. У него было много тайн и секретов от внешнего мира, он очень ценил свою приватность и личную жизнь. Несмотря на то, что он бывал в разных уголках мира, часто обитал в самой гуще тусовочных движений, круг его общения обычно сводился всего лишь к нескольким людям. Все остальные были только сменными декорациями, ненадолго задерживающимися в кадре. Чтобы прогонять непрошенных или надоедливых посетителей из своей комнатушки в парижском «бит-отеле», Берроуз разработал следующую технику: когда гость пришёл, дайте ему выговориться, и пока он говорит или ещё что делает, повторяйте про себя мантру, глядя на него: «Я тебя люблю — я тебя ненавижу, я тебя люблю — я тебя ненавижу» — и сами увидите, как через пять минут вам скажут: «Ладно, Билл, мне, кажется, пора, я пошёл, всего хорошего», — и никто не сможет упрекнуть вас в негостеприимстве.
Гомосексуализм и наркотики стали визитной карточкой Билли, и первый роман, который должен был называться «Faggot» («Педик»), впоследствии был разделён на две части: «Queer» («Пидор») и Junky («Наркоман»). Несмотря на то, что с годами Берроуз стал иконой для всего американского ЛГБТ-движения, он никогда не идентифицировал геев как своих. Он настаивал, что есть два слова для обозначения разницы между мужчинами, любящими мужчин. Одни — крепкие, мужественные и благородные джентльмены, занимающимися своими делами и не кичащиеся собой, таких называют queer. Другую группу он характеризовал как «подскакивающих и приседающих расфуфыренных хуесосов» и называл словом faggot. Несмотря на свои сексуальные предпочтения и богатый опыт вращения в криминальной среде, Уильям до конца дней оставался джентльменом, эдаким аристократом из Сент-Луиса: когда дама входила, он обязательно вставал с места, никогда не садился раньше неё и соблюдал ещё тысячу и одну условность хорошего тона. От разодетых геев с одной стороны и его героиновых знакомых с другой Билли отличался безупречными костюмами-тройками, изысканными ботинками и тростью. Весь этикет, конечно же, улетучивался в периоды его алкогольных и наркотических запоев — однако воспитанный человек, как правильно заметил Пётр Мамонов, даже нажравшись и лёжа половиной лица в луже, будет извиняться перед прохожими за причинённое им неудобство.
«every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage»
Самое поразительное в этой истории — возраст, в котором скончался адский дедушка Билл. За свою жизнь господин Дезинсектор перепробовал все виды доступных человечеству наркотиков, до самой смерти оставался опиум-зависимым и сам называл себя «профессором алкоголизма» — при этом ему удалось пережить всех основных битов, прожить восемьдесят три года и до самой смерти оставаться активным центром притяжения для всемирной творческой богемы. Факт такого долгожительства, несмотря на вредные привычки, сгубил не одну сотню людей, старавшихся подражать Биллу и считавших, что для писательства достаточно вмазаться. Сам Берроуз заплатил цену за неоднозначность такого образа ещё при жизни. Его сын, Билли-младший, после смерти матери остался предоставленным самому себе, а когда подрос и осознал, кто такой покинувший и лишивший его матери отец, изо всех сил стал подражать Билли-старшему, написал два романа с красноречивыми названиями «На спидах» и «От винта» и в тридцать три года благополучно скончался от цирроза печени.
«Брэд подарил Грегу пару сандалий Меркурия на Рождество — и они взлетели, держась за руки, разбрасывая искры за собой, его одежда, вся в грязных чёрных дырах, сгорела…»
Ещё при жизни Берроуз как бы умер (в подтверждение данной теории достаточно взглянуть на его фотографии) и стал питательной почвой для творческих маргиналов и бунтарей всех мастей. Целые музыкальные течения выходили из его измождённого тела и воспалённого мозга — и панк-рок, самое яркое из этих течений, будто вышел в свет со страниц его книг. Например, члены группы Ramones с самой ранней юности были «дикими мальчиками»: в подростковом возрасте они продавали себя возрастной гей-клиентуре, чтобы на вырученные деньги вмазаться наркотиками и побренчать на гитаре. Панк не боится саморазрушения, хаоса и анархии. В своих книгах Берроуз описывает наркотики, которые можно употребить только один раз, употребить — и тут же на месте скончаться в очень красочных и сладострастных конвульсиях. Так вот эти самые конвульсии на сцене изображал Игги Поп, ещё один ярый адепт Билли Б.
The old Bill staggering and moves with difficulty, but it shoots from the pistol almost every day. Friends brought spray cans with paint, fixed them in front of the plywood. Берроуз стрелял живопись, которую потом очень активно и успешно продавали на аукционах. Последнее, что Билли написал в своём дневнике: «Love? What is it? Most Natural Pain Killer What There is. LOVE» — 1 августа 1997.
West African tribe mats playing football with a human skull
Text Sergey Zhdanov Kiev 
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