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>killed wife
>mogged every Beat writer
>mogs every post-modern writer (including Pynchon
>one of the most successful and influential writers of all time and never had to sellout or write slop for the masses
>lived a genuinely interesting life and corresponded with genuinely interesting people
>was a messiah-like figure to boomers' favourite rockstars, even though he didn't care for them or their shit music
>lived till 83 despite being a drug addict for most of his life
No wonder he makes /lit/ seethe so much. He lived every writer's dream.
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>>24730201
He fled to Tangiers and raped kids while he was there.
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as with all these writers
>who?
forgotten to the dusts of time
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Dude Burroughs was a giant women hater

>Q: For Antonin Artaud, sexuality is a barrier to the rapprochement of men and women. What do you think?

>A: I’m not interested in this rapprochement. I don’t see it as a barrier; I think that the whole anti-sex orientation of our society is basically manipulated by female interests. Because it is to their interest to keep sexuality down; that’s the way they hang onto a man, or latch on to one, and then he’s not supposed to do anything else. It is the vested interest of the female sex, which is anti-sexual.
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Kek, based Burroughs

>Q: How do you envision the future of relations between men and women?

>A: In The Soft Machine: I proposed that the sexes be separated, that all male children be raised by males and all female children be raised by women. The less the two sexes have to do with each other, the better, I think.

>Q: Well, then you wouldn’t need women any more, would you, as soon as it was all being done automatically?

>A: No, perhaps that’s assuming you could have wombs in bottles, so that there wouldn’t be any need for these women…
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>>24730235
>>24730247
Unfathombly based.
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I love Burroughs so damn much. Fuck w*men.

>Q: What would be necessary to replace the family?

>A: Nothing. Nothing. I don’t see there’s any need for the family at all. For example, you start off this way. Artificial insemination, of course, is now quite possible. All right, you pick your donors and your women, the women become pregnant, they’re kept in a hospital till the baby’s born—don’t want them wandering around, because there’s all sorts of things that can happen to a child before birth. Another thing very important is that there should be no noise when the child is born; no one should say anything, because those words at that very traumatic instant leave a permanent impression. Mr L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, says that during any period of unconsciousness it is absolutely criminal for anyone to say anything, because those words are imprinted in the organism, and if they are restimulated or repeated later, the pain will be re-experienced, and they’re very crippling. O.K., the baby is born, then it’s transferred to a nursery, or whatever, to be raised. That’s all… No family.

>Q: Do you think we will arrive, or have already arrived at the point of creating artificial beings without recourse to normal reproductive processes? Does that seem desirable to you?

>A: I think it’s quite within the range of modern technology, and it seems very desirable to me indeed, because it would bring about elimination of the family. But research along these lines is blocked, of course, by vested interests, and particularly by the vested interest of the female sex; their monopoly is the baby thing. Now, if you could produce artificial beings, you could produce them at a reasonable age, and you wouldn’t have all this infancy. Yes, it seems to me very desirable.
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Kek, Burroughs absolutely buck breaking women

>Q: A. J. is obliged to call his bodyguards to get him away from the American women in rut who fall upon him. What do you think of American women?

>A: I think they’re possibly one of the worst expressions of the female sex because they’ve been allowed to go further. This whole worship of women that flourished in the Old South, and in frontier days, when there weren’t many, is still basic in American life; and the whole Southern worship of women and white supremacy is still the policy of America. They lost the Civil War, but their policies still dominate America. It’s a matriarchal, white supremacist country. There seems to be a very definite link between matriarchy and white supremacy.
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>>24730276
>There seems to be a very definite link between matriarchy and white supremacy.
Not sure what to think about this. I think commies are right when they say that fascism and homosexuality are interlinked.
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Last and the most important lesson I think

>Q: You wrote: “I am not two, I am one.” What are the consequences of this unity?

>A: I’ve spoken of unworkable formulas and possibly the most unworkable formula is the whole concept of a dualistic universe. I don’t think that there is really room for more than one person, that is, one will, on any planet. As soon as you get two you get trouble. Dualism is the whole basis of this planet—good and evil, communism, fascism, man, woman, etc. As soon as you have a formula like that, of course you’re going to have trouble. The planet is populated by various groups and their conditions of life are completely incompatible and they aren’t going to get together. It isn’t a question of their just getting together and loving each other: they can’t, ’cause their interests are not the same. Just take men and women for example, they’ll never get together, their interests are not the same.
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>>24730276
>There seems to be a very definite link between matriarchy and white supremacy.
Wtf I love women now.
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>>24730288
I mean I get where Burroughs is coming from. Racial supremacists always want more breeding from of their race. And how do they achieve this goal? By becoming slaves of women and starting more families. Even today when artificial wombs are literally available you see racial supremacists shilling females with their disgusting ballooned up stomachs and thus worshiping their "fertility".
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He was right about everything. I endorse this thread! Thumbs up!
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>>24730201
What should I read first?
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He doesn’t make /lit/ seethe though. The majority of people here with any opinion on Burroughs, actually like him quite a bit, and most of the negative opinions haven’t read him
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Oh cool a Burroughs thread with a number of replies.

Oh. It's just a chud thread.
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>>24730235
>>24730247
Based rapist
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>>24730201
the funniest part is that how he managed to never catch aids, despite being a junky fag who was using into the 90s probably, was simply because it was always understood that he had seniority and would shoot first. the pope of dope.
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burroughs hates women because he's a fag
i hate women because they wont fuck me

we are not the same
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>>24730235
1) who cares 2) this is a pretty accurate assessment of how things work, not that I support boomer free love horseshit.
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>>24730247
>>24730270
>>24730276
Wow this is retarded
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>>24730281
>I think commies are right when they say that fascism and homosexuality are interlinked.

To me this has always read like enormous cope from commie Jews seething about the Holocaust after the fact. No wonder fuckers like Adorno wanted to discredit fascism in whatever way they could, fascism killed 6 million of his fellow Jews. There's nothing principled about it, it's pure ethnic loyalty and racial survival instinct.
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>>24731482
Sucks, doesn't it?

>>24731453
Ideally, by doing an unhealthy amount of drugs, followed by kicking the habit cold turkey. And then you can read Junkie and Naked Lunch and get the most out of them.

>>24731606
He "predicted" it in Cities of the Red Night.
>The city of Waghdas is in the grip of a cholera epidemic, which turns out to be a virus that is sexual in origin". Morgan notes that while this disease is similar to AIDS, the novel was written when AIDS was unheard of.
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>>24731482
you're on a chud website you dumb tranny tourist
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>>24731735
Let me guess, you got here circa 2016?
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>>24731736
Let me guess, you got here circa 2024?
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>>24731730
Give me the redpill on Burroughs. Was he a fed?
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>>24730201
Perhaps he violated that temptation to be backwards looking to Europe in his influences. None of it's worse for it-- he's the only Celine torchbearer that really executed on what he pioneered in style.
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>>24731761
Every truly great American writer existed in a kind of pro-European intellectual ecosystem. Melville, Hawthorne, Faulkner, McCarthy, even Don DeLillo to a certain extent. And why not? What's the "truly American" artistic aesthetic, a used car salesman?
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>>24731482
>Oh. It's just a chud thread.
How? I am just posting excerpts from his interviews.
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>>24731735
>>you're on a chud website
Shut up you directioned brained retard
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>>24731794
you have to go back
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>>24730201
>No wonder he makes /lit/ seethe so much.
I've literally never thought about this man, or read any of his books, or posted about him (until now?).

>>24730235
>It is the vested interest of the female sex
A bit outdated. Women are the more openly sexual beings in the current year.
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>>24731827
You have to go back to your contamination shithole >>>/pol/
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>>24731842
>Women are the more openly sexual beings in the current year.
They still settle for a nice guy. Whole world is at its peak of matriarchy.
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>>24731748
typical woman hating faggot who got away with murder of his own wife by running away. total piece of shit
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>>24731886
Kill yourself roastie
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>>24731703
But it's true, though.
Even Burroughs, despite the anarchistic all is permitted ethos, wrote fascist coded work. The boyscout manual, if I remember correctly, features the story of a boy gang, aged 15 to 18, I think, in fascist regalia, overturning Britain. Also, his concept of aggressive roving late adolescent gangs fits more a fascist fantasy than a leftist one.Then there's Burroughs weird obsession with escaping natural and physical life and distrust of biological life in general, which is also fascist coded since fascism, and right wing in general, is based on deep distrust and policing and control of natural forces.
And fascist sensibilities and aesthetics dominate the LGBT world in overt form - BDSM, top and bottom, worship of authority, puppy and daddy fetishism - and in covert forms - appreciation of fascist history behind closed doors, fascist adjacent aesthetics (crew cuts, uniforms). The obvious hatred of women and everything that women represent - tenderness, softness, lack of angles, dissolution, natural processes, children, love - is also very fascist coded. The tradwife meme is essentially an attempt by chuds to police female sexuality. Their understanding that, without control, women turn into sluts that fuck everything is also an expression of fascist fear of sexuality and projection of their own perversion onto the other sex, of whom fascist chuds have the barest understanding (usually gleaned from seedy and degraded and marginal media such as written or visual porn). And another blackpill about homosexuality is that it's surprisingly devoid of emotional contact and tenderness: it's cocks in, cocks out, the other person a hole, without zero emotional investment ; there's very little affection; cheating, something that ruins heterosexual relationships due to breaking of emotional bonds, is normalized because of lack, or inability, of deep emotional engagement. I think this transactional and reptilian cold nature of homosexual sex is the reason why diseases spread so easily amongst gays: they don't really, on a fundamental level, care about other men; a man is just a tool to provide the, obviously masturbatory, kicks you seek. And if you really analyze gay sex, it's absolutely fascist in structure: there's no synergy as between man and woman, where the bodies join and work with each other on an equal field; there's a man subjugating another man through forceful penetration; it's essentially a power play, the purest naked example of raw domination and submission in nature: the distilled biological core of all fascist and right wing and racist and Nazi and nationalist and conservative ideologies. Even the pedophilia fits the pattern, since the core of pedophilic desire is a an intense hatred and subjugation of someone weaker and softer than you, a grown man. Homosexuality is the perfect epitome of fascism: the absolute congealed essence of fascism.
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>>24731889
Your reply has bottom energy. You WILL die of AIDS, faggot. : )
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>>24731886
>who got away with murder of his own wife by running away
Maybe I'll give him a chance.
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>>24731703
>>24731893
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>>24730201
>one of the most successful and influential writers of all time and never had to sellout or write slop for the masses
None of these statements are true. He wasn't that successful, the Nova trilogy is barely read nowadays - and he's only influential among weirdos and genexers for his ideas about cut-up technique and magic. Most people don't even engage with Naked Lunch anymore - they go through Queer and Junkie, which are good, and leave it at that, which is a shame because Cities of the Red Night is arguably his best.
That said, about the "sellout": read his letters. He constantly pandered to editors and asked how to make his books more palatable for the public, besides accepting several editorial changes to his early works just so they would get out.
He also lived his all life on a family allowance, coming from one of the richest families in the US - it's easy to be a writer doing drugs if at the end of the day your dad pays you to exist. Being rich is also the reason why he got away with killing his wife.
So, overall, pretty cringe and pretty non-influential. There's some interesting thought here and there about language as a virus and writing as magic, some cool page scattered here and there, but overall there's no urgency to anything he writes. He's the product of being pampered and having a lot of time on your hands. A sensible mind for sure, but "genuinely" interesting life with "genuinely interesting" people? Not really.
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>>24731903
now do the same with contemporary thinkers
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>>24731908
No they’re boring
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>>24731894
Post TITS or GTFO roastie whore
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>>24731903
Yeah, you're not escaping the accusations. Jews hate Fascism because Fascism GOT them, nailed them, really fucked them up in a way they've never gotten over, so they have to discredit it and subvert it and undermine it with all their power to prevent it from ever fucking them again.

Just like they work to subvert the Church because the Church has fucked them too over the centuries. Almost all movies made in Hollywood make sense in light of this.
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>>24731906
>pretty non-influential.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
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>>24731926
It wasn't the Church that fucked them. It was the kings who did. Wondering why the Church never sought to convert them like they did with the pagans. Curious. As if the Jews are special to the Church.
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>>24731932
One of the reasons Vatican 2 exists is that the Church wanted to try to reach out to other faiths, including the Jews. It's not that the Church hasn't tried, it's that the Jews don't want to listen. The Church used to realize that it was dangerous to indulge them but everybody got feel-good in the aftermath of World War 2 and the Holocaust and now we're in the shitshow of the modern West.

Thank God the Jews' own evil bloodthirstiness in Gaza has snapped everybody out of the delusions of the Postwar Era. Very funny how in the end they were, as always, their own worst enemies. What's that line? The golem always turns on its master.
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>>24730235
he got most of his misogyny from Brion Gysin
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>>24731486
>rapist
What's up with this roastie tier moralfagging? There is nothing wrong with consensual pederasty. Even Schopenhauer prescribed that.
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>>24731453
cities of the Red night
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>>24731482
Burroughs was a chud, though.
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>>24731937
>Brion Gysin
What's the redpill on him?
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>>24731730
>He "predicted" it
He also predicted it in Naked Lunch.
A virus that would come from Ethipioa that would primarily affect gays and drug users but could infect anyone. Can't remember the exact quote.
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>>24731926
Jews also hate homosexuality
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>>24731748
Yes. He was an heir to the Burroughs Corporation, went to Ivy League school. Attempted to join the OSS (early CIA) after college like many of his friends, but was rejected. Killed his wife and got away with it. Spent his whole life attempting to purge himself from external control and wrote about MKUltra-like experiments before MKUltra was known.
My personal theory is he was subjected a proto-MKUltra experiment shortly after killing his wife, hence why he became so schizo and became obsessed with spiritual and mental control techniques and how they manifest themselves in every day life.
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>>24731951
No, Jews hate manly type of homosexuality. This is why they promote womanly lgbt faggots who spent all of their time with women. They are the most disgusting people.
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He was typically apolitical.
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>>24731730
>He "predicted" it in Cities of the Red Night.
You do know that AIDS has been traced back to the early 1900's now right?
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>>24732303
you may be surprised to hear that not everyone is a homosexual with a vested interest like you.
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>>24732104
his worldview was inherently leftist
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>>24730216
Good.
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>>24732328
Source?
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>>24730276
>There seems to be a very definite link between matriarchy and white supremacy.
This guy glows. Native Americans and Jews are highly matriarchal.
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>>24732351
Can you reply to this >>24730299
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>>24732346
Burroughs was a degenerate leftist agent, using his 'cut-up' garbage to promote cultural Marxism by attacking the traditional family and pushing drug-fueled anarchy. He wanted to destroy Western civilization by deconstructing language itself, turning our youth into godless junkies and paving the way for a globalist communist takeover.
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>>24732360
Deraged ravings of a latent homosexual.
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>>24731953
My theory is he was accepted by OSS, the denial is a cover.
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>>24732360
This >>24732369
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he was an illuminati puppet whose writing technique was actually a ritualistic act of dimensional sorcery to open up portals for inter-dimensional lizard people. his books are encrypted grimoires, filled with sigils and codes that, when read backward by the unsuspecting, activate the "soft machine" to make us docile and receptive to 5g mind-control frequencies from the deep state. he was a freemason-satanist who literally sold his soul to the new world order to help them usher in a globalist antichrist regime where we all live in pods and eat bugs while his books are worshipped as sacred texts by the demonic elite. this whole literary facade was a front for a mass demonic possession ritual. the "beat generation" was a soul-harvesting operation. burroughs made a blood pact with the same dark forces that whisper to the globalist cabal at their bilderberg meetings, and his work was the contract. he wasn't just breaking down language; he was splicing our very souls, tearing off fragments and offering them up to the arch-demons who want to turn humanity into a hive mind of spiritless vessels. cutt-up isn't art, it's a spiritual acid, dissolving our connection to the divine so we'll be too weak to resist when the final darkness falls and the antichrist reveals himself. it all connects to the great reset. the lizard people, the freemasons, the globalists, the deep state and the jews—they're all working together. his books were a part of the long-term plan to dissolve our culture, our faith, and our family units. he was a prophet of depravity, a technological black magician using frequency weapons and subliminal programming to prepare the masses for a one-world government. the media is in on it. the universities are in on it. they are trying to turn us into mindless, soulless automatons who will blindly accept our enslavement and applaud as they build their techno-feudal zionist hellscape.
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>>24732405
chatgpt made the writer irrelevant, just as the artificial womb will make women irrelevant. this IS progress.
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>>24732369
>>24732374
>no argument
Pussy slaves detected
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>>24730281
Pretty ironic, since every commie is a fag nowadays.
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>>24731453
Junky is a "gentle" introduction.
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>>24731906
>he's only influential among weirdos and genexers for his ideas about cut-up technique and magic
Pynchon would never have got started if not for Burroughs.
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>>24732405
Pretty based pastiche t.b.h.
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>>24732365
That's a reach. He certainly didn't advocate drug addiction. He forewarned others of the dangers. His addiction theory also extends to an analogy of state power and control.

You type like a drooling /pol/tard
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>>24730201
>one of the most successful and influential writers
More like completely forgotten and with no legacy
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>>24732365
>cultural Marxism by attacking the traditional family
His views were similar to Plato, Buddha and Nietzsche that state should raise children so that men should pursue their interest for the progress of mankind and not remain chained to the shackles of family.

You are just retarded slave.
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>>24733556
>no legacy
Kek, Pynchon, Patti Smith, David Cronenberg and Thomas Ligotti are still alive.
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>>24731730
>He "predicted" it in Cities of the Red Night.
>>24731945
>He also predicted it in Naked Lunch.
>>24732303
>You do know that AIDS has been traced back to the early 1900's now right?
>>24731748
>Give me the redpill on Burroughs.


He didn't predict it. He created it.
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>>24734033
Based and truthpilled.



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