junkie writers

[5t3IIa]

William Burroughs was bald.

 

[Madusa]

And shit

 

[5t3IIa]

Junky is good. Other shit not so much.

 

[Madusa]

Junky was crap.

''Yeah, scored some junk, went up to my room at the chelsea, did my junk, saw that Bukowski guy at a reading - yeah he's a dick. need to score some more junk...''

BORING and SHIT!

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I liked it.

 

[5t3IIa]

Well, I'm certainly going to argue about arzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Madusa]

I actually had to read 'Soft Machine' for a Lit module at uni and I actually got so frustrated with the shitty style of writing in that I threw the book across the room.

 

[Jonti]

Charles Baudelaire, Aldous Huxley, Robert Southey, Thomas de Quincey, William Burroughs, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, Antonin Artaud, De Quincey, Poe, Rimbaud, Flaubert, Robert Stevenson, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Conan Doyle, JackKerouac, Timothy Leary.

And, yeah, Lewis Carol.

 

[Madusa]

Shakespeare was a crackhead.

 

[strung out]

I actually had to read 'Soft Machine' for a Lit module at uni and I actually got so frustrated with the shitty style of writing in that I threw the book across the room.

across the room?

 

[Jonti]

I actually had to read 'Soft Machine' for a Lit module at uni and I actually got so frustrated with the shitty style of writing in that I threw the book across the room.

I had much the same experience trying to read Walt Whitman. But I persevered, and it turns out he's really rather good!

Not a druggie author, mind.

/derail

 

[Jonti]

Shakespeare was a crackhead.

Allegedly, though marijuana was popular in Elizabethan England too.

Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variation or quick change?
Why with the time do I not glance aside
To new-found methods, and to compounds strange?
Why write I still all one, ever the same,
And keep invention in a noted weed,
That every word doth almost tell my name,
Showing their birth, and where they did proceed?
O! know sweet love I always write of you,
And you and love are still my argument;
So all my best is dressing old words new,
Spending again what is already spent:
For as the sun is daily new and old,
So is my love still telling what is told.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I suspect Iain Banks is partial to a drug or two.

 

[ViolentPanda]

phil. you tell us you're a phd with several books published whose been all over the world, yet all you can come up with is 'baldy'

Sad, isn't it, from a bloke who teaches a university course on Milton.

 

[ViolentPanda]

says the dwarf

Still, it's cruel to persecute someone for a fault they can't change, short of long-term traction.
Mind you, he could have cosmetic surgery to stop him looking like Rob Bryden's older and uglier brother.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Charles Baudelaire, Aldous Huxley, Robert Southey, Thomas de Quincey, William Burroughs, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Wilkie Collins, Antonin Artaud, De Quincey, Poe, Rimbaud, Flaubert, Robert Stevenson, Sigmund Freud, Arthur Conan Doyle, JackKerouac, Timothy Leary.

And, yeah, Lewis Carol.

Artaud was already totally doolally-tap even before he started on the drugs, though.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

Artaud was already totally doolally-tap even before he started on the drugs, though.

 

[rutabowa]

Junky was crap.

''Yeah, scored some junk, went up to my room at the chelsea, did my junk, saw that Bukowski guy at a reading - yeah he's a dick. need to score some more junk...''

BORING and SHIT!

i think you might have that mixed up... Junkie was published in 1953 before anyone had ever heard of bukowski or burroughs, so neither of them were doing readings then. He wouldnt have been staying at the Chelsea hotel in Junkie, it was all about him before he was writing or famous. there is a scene in a Bukowski book Women though where he is doing a reading and burroughs is there.

 

[tar1984]

you're not allowed to use the word ''junkie'' on urban btw.

Motherfucker!

 

[fractionMan]

philip k dick quite liked his drugs iirc

 

[Madusa]

i think you might have that mixed up... Junkie was published in 1953 before anyone had ever heard of bukowski or burroughs, so neither of them were doing readings then. He wouldnt have been staying at the Chelsea hotel in Junkie, it was all about him before he was writing or famous. there is a scene in a Bukowski book Women though where he is doing a reading and burroughs is there.

the chelsea thing was for dramatic effect.

However, in junkie, there is definitely a scene Burroughs describes about meeting Bukowski at somekind of reading...similar to the scene that Bukowski describes about meeting Burroughs in Women.

 

[rutabowa]

the chelsea thing was for dramatic effect.

However, in junkie, there is definitely a scene Burroughs describes about meeting Bukowski at somekind of reading...similar to the scene that Bukowski describes about meeting Burroughs in Women.

but Junkie was written in 1953 and (it says on wikipedia) bukowski only started writing poetry in 1957..... i am pretty sure that that scene isn't from junkie.... but not 100% tho

 

[Madusa]

but Junkie was written in 1953 and (it says on wikipedia) bukowski only started writing poetry in 1957..... i am pretty sure that that scene isn't from junkie.... but not 100% tho

so? I definitely remember reading two seperate accounts of that meeting and thinking how cool the mutual dislike for each other was.

 

[rutabowa]

yeh i'm sure there was, just i don't think it can have been in Junkie that's all.

 

[Madusa]

well, it definitely wasnt in Soft Machine and those are the only books I've read by Burroughs.

STOP UNDERMINING ME!

 

[D'wards]

philip k dick quite liked his drugs iirc

And how?

Before one of his books i read, cannot remember which, he dedicates it to all his drug casualty friends, then details their drug-based damages, deaths etc

 

[fractionMan]

He took loads of amphetamines http://www.philipkdick.com/media_sfeye96.html

 

[DotCommunist]

as someone else has pointed out, there is some fun to be had trying to work out which books or bits of books he wrote while bang on it

 

[Final]

i'll start you off with thos. de quincey, famous for 'the english mail-coach' and something about opium.

confessions of an english opium eater.

Strangely, that was on my 1st year reading list for a geography course

 

[discokermit]

paul verlaine.