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[rozk]

I just found this - quite the oddest posthumous collaboration ever, and yet singularly appropriate. William Burroughs reciting Brecht's 'What Keeps Mankind Alive'- even more sinister than the Tom Waits version.

Implausibly enough, I once met Burroughs at a party - the late Kathy Acker introduced us but we really didn't have anything much to talk about. He was a writer I respected without liking, and I cannot imagine where I would have fitted into his world-view.

The whole Roz connects to everyone schtick is true, but often the connections are not significant.

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[pnh.livejournal.com]

I never met William S. Burroughs, but I once saw him come out of a Baskin-Robbins in the Laurelhurst neighborhood of Seattle, ice-cream cone in hand.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It must be quite difficult to come across as more sinister than Tom Waites!

Btw, has Sarah contacted you about doing lunch?

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Possibly TMI: On a Langford diagram, I am two bedmates away from William Burroughs.

[pnh.livejournal.com]

Langdon, not Langford.

(A Langford diagram has to do with people you've shouted "WHAT?" at in a crowded pub.)

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Surely it's something to do with the layout of garden gnomes Hugos along a mantlepiece?