A tangled tale. We're looking at an autobiographical memoir and a coffee table art book. The art is awesome, the memoir is engaging.
The tale has to do with Malcolm McNeill's years-long attempts to complete a graphic novel with William Burroughs, a work to be called Ah Pook is Here. Ah Pook, by the way, is a Mayan god of death.
McNeill met Burroughs in London in 1970, when Burroughs was 56 and McNeill 23. They worked on a comic strip together, The Unspeakable Mr. Hart, which ran through four episodes in McNeill's underground newspaper, Cyclops. The paper folded, but Burroughs and McNeill stayed in touch, hoping to flesh out their comic and create a booklength graphic novel.
thanks for the prose.. here's the licker; do we really have time to read deep into this, with the end of the world just 8 days away.. ? and two asteroids missing the earth on 12:12:12? i am pretty sure that burroughs can save us, but truthfully time is running out and all the lemmings are running and the sheep are asleep so let's hear the words of hassan i sabbah the old man and the mountain;
don't let them see us, don't tell them what we are doing.. ; '
rub out the word foreverzumaDecember 14 2012, 04:59:59 UTC
read deep, to the last word, the last link. what passes has a life of it's own -me, i figure honor it. it's all reading anyway, nothing is really originally written by our cogent consciousness alone, but what we read deep of in our inner chicken entrails and the i ching throw of the moment... what passes has a life of it's own
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A tangled tale. We're looking at an autobiographical memoir and a coffee table art book. The art is awesome, the memoir is engaging.
The tale has to do with Malcolm McNeill's years-long attempts to complete a graphic novel with William Burroughs, a work to be called Ah Pook is Here. Ah Pook, by the way, is a Mayan god of death.
McNeill met Burroughs in London in 1970, when Burroughs was 56 and McNeill 23. They worked on a comic strip together, The Unspeakable Mr. Hart, which ran through four episodes in McNeill's underground newspaper, Cyclops. The paper folded, but Burroughs and McNeill stayed in touch, hoping to flesh out their comic and create a booklength graphic novel.
see article for more.
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don't let them see us, don't tell them what we are doing..
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a timely offering!
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you know we aren't meant to exist in the outside world.
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http://www.litkicks.com/ActionPoetryNovember2012
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