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26. Ibid., 152.
27. Ibid.
28. Morgan, tape 18.
29. WSB, The Third Mind, 107–8.
30. Hopkins, Tangier Diaries, 77.
31. Ibid, 67.
32. Ibid.
33. WSB, Exterminator! (Corgi edition), 39. Mr. P is Paul Bowles.
34. Alan Ansen papers, in Ted Morgan papers, Arizona State University, Tempe.
35. Hopkins, Tangier Diaries, 56; Gary Pulsifer, Paul Bowles by His Friends, 60. Conversation with the author, 2012.
36. WSB, Nova Express, 11.
37. WSB interviewed by Conrad Knickerbocker, Paris Review, issue 35 (Fall 1965), and in various collections.
38. Caused partly by Ansen’s affair with a redheaded Berber who supposedly later assassinated the grand rabbi of Tangier.
39. Cited in John Geiger, Nothing Is True, Everything Is Permitted, 189.
40. Conversation with Ira Cohen, New York, 1985.
41. “Who Is the Walks Beside You Written 3rd?,” in Darazt anthology, London, 1965.
42. “I Talk to the First Beatnik,” WSB interviewed by Susan Barnes, Sun, November 17, 1964.
Chapter Thirty-Eight
1. WSB interviewed by Conrad Knickerbocker, Paris Review, issue 35 (Fall 1965).
2. Claude Pélieu, With Revolvers Aimed… Finger Bowls (San Francisco: Beach Books, Texts & Documents, 1967); Mary Beach, A Two Fisted Banana: Electric and Gothic (Cherry Valley, NY: Cherry Valley, 1980).
3. C: A Journal of Poetry vol. 1, no. 9 (Summer 1964): 43–47.
4. C: A Journal of Poetry vol. 1, no. 10 (February 14, 1965): 70–71.
5. C Press books were published by Lorenz and Ellen Gude. Berrigan would certainly never have had enough money for such a professional print job.
6. The text was dated March 31, 1964, in Tangier.
7. “St. Louis Return,” Paris Review, issue 35 (Fall 1965).
8. “Transcript of Dutch Schultz’s Last Words,” in James D. Horan, The Desperate Years (New York: Bonanza Books, 1962), 185.
9. WSB to Ian Sommerville, February 16, 1965.
10. Ed Sanders, Fug You, 130.
11. WSB to Ian Sommerville, February 16, 1965.
12. WSB to Antony Balch, May 19, 1965.
13. WSB to Alan Ansen, February 27, 1964.
14. WSB to Ian Sommerville, April 12, 1965.
15. See Sanders, Fug You, 145.
16. Andy Warhol and Pat Hackett, POPism: The Warhol ’60s, 103.
17. Morgan, tape 34.
18. Ibid.
19. WSB to Ian Sommerville, July 28, 1965.
20. Morgan, tape 25.
21. Anslinger was in power from 1930 to 1962; before that he was assistant commissioner in the Bureau of Prohibition.
22. Mayor John Lindsay was in office from January 1, 1966, to December 31, 1973.
Chapter Thirty-Nine
1. WSB, unpublished journals, November 21, 1982.
2. Interview with Christopher Gibbs, Tangier, 2011.
3. Ibid.
4. Morgan, tape 36.
5. Morgan, tape 15, tape 31.
6. WSB, untitled essay in the press kit for Chappaqua, 1967.
7. WSB to Brion Gysin, May 27, 1966.
8. Carl Weissner to Victor Bockris, in Victor Bockris, With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, 8.
9. Bill Butler, “A Word Is a Word Is a Collage,” Guardian, November 27, 1965.
10. WSB to Claude Pélieu, November 10, 1966.
11. The British Board of Film Censors issued a “U” certificate to films that were suitable for children.
12. WSB interviewed by the author, Lawrence, Kansas, November 29, 1991.
13. The author of this book.
14. The author was present.
15. Ian Sommerville in conversation, London, 1966.
16. Harriet Vyner, Groovy Bob, 168.
Chapter Forty
1. WSB to Ian Sommerville, September 12, 1966; WSB to Ian Sommerville, September 15, 1966.
2. Morgan, tape 41.
3. WSB to Ian Sommerville, September 15, 1966.
4. WSB to Brion Gysin, August 1, 1966.
5. WSB to Brion Gysin, December 17, 1966.
6. Allen Ginsberg to Barry Miles, September 20, 1966.
7. WSB to Brion Gysin, October 13, 1966.
8. WSB to Mary Beach, July 28, 1967.
9. As this was not published in English until 1970, Burroughs must have read it in French, either in the magazine or the 1967 French edition.
10. WSB to Brion Gysin, December 23, 1966.
11. “Dressed for Tea,” WSB interviewed by W. J. Weatherby, Guardian, March 22, 1963.
12. WSB, The Soft Machine (Grove Black Cat edition), 26.
13. WSB, Last Words, 206.
14. WSB to Laura Lee Burroughs, November 21, 1966.
15. WSB, afterword in William S. Burroughs Jr., Kentucky Ham, 195.
16. WSB, The Western Lands, 253.
17. WSB to Brion Gysin, February 5, 1967.
18. WSB to Brion Gysin, February 8, 1967.
19. WSB, afterword in Williams S. Burroughs Jr., Kentucky Ham, 196.
20. WSB to Brion Gysin, April 15, 1968.
21. William S. Burroughs Jr., Cursed from Birth, 25.
22. WSB, The Cat Inside, 69.
23. The dinner was held on December 16, 1966.
24. WSB to Brion Gysin, March 17, 1967.
25. WSB to Brion Gysin, August 21, 1967.
26. The author was present.
Chapter Forty-One
1. L. Ron Hubbard, Third Operating Thetan Level, “The Ring of Fire,” September 1967.
2. WSB, Nova Express, 170.
3. WSB, Ali’s Smile, 99.
4. Auditor, no. 32 (in-house Scientology magazine), 5.
5. Harold Norse, Bastard Angel, 415–16.
6. Morgan, tape 45, tape 28.
7. WSB, Last Words, 64.
8. WSB to Brion Gysin, August 19, 1968.
9. Ian Sommerville, in conversation with the author, 1968.
10. Morgan, tape 39.
Chapter Forty-Two
1. “The Coming of the Purple Better One,” in WSB, Exterminator!, 98.
2. Victor Bockris, With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, 25.
3. WSB to Brion Gysin, September 9, 1968.
4. See Jack Stevensen, Witchcraft Through the Ages: The Story of Häxen, the World’s Strangest Film, and the Man Who Made It (Godalming, UK: FAB, 2006); Benjamin Christensen, Häxen/Witchcraft Through the Ages, Tartan DVDTVD3758, 2007.
5. WSB to Brion Gysin, October 17, 1968.
6. Ibid.
7. WSB to Dr. Joe Gross, October 17, 1968.
8. WSB to Brion Gysin, November 5, 1968.
9. “Rolling Stone Interview,” WSB interviewed by Robert Palmer, Rolling Stone, May 11, 1972.
10. Ibid.
11. WSB interviewed by Larry McCaffery in Across the Wounded Galaxies, ed. Larry McCaffery (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 44.
12. WSB, The Job, 17.
13. WSB, “The Discipline of DE,” in Exterminator!, 56.
14. “Journey Through Time-Space,” WSB interviewed by Daniel Odier, Evergreen 67 (June 1969).
Chapter Forty-Three
1. “In Search of the Connection,” WSB interviewed by Nina Sutton, Guardian, July 5, 1969.
2. Mick Farren, Give the Anarchist a Cigarette, 279.
3. Morgan, tape 1.
4. WSB, unpublished journal, January 2, 1984.
5. WSB, My Education, 147.
6. Ibid.
7. WSB to Billy Burroughs Jr., November 4, 1970.
8. Bockris, A Report from the Bunker, 27.
9. Charles Marowitz, “Expats’ Chicago: London, 1968,” http://swans.com/library/art14/cmarow108.html (June 2, 2008) (accessed June 2012).
10. Irving Wardle, “Conspiracy Trial Is Given as Drama,” New York Times, August 26, 1970.
11. B. A. Young, “Flash Gordon and the Angels,” F
inancial Times, February 17, 1971.
12. David Z. Mairowitz to author, 2005.
13. WSB, Evil River ms.
14. Bockris, A Report from the Bunker, 220.
15. WSB, Evil River ms.
16. Bockris, A Report from the Bunker, 120–21.
17. Morgan, tape 3.
18. Morgan, tape 38.
19. The Rolling Stones Chronicle, “1971: I Can’t Even Feel the Pain No More,” http://www.timeisonourside.com/chron1971.html (accessed November 2011).
20. Morgan, tape 3.
21. Ibid.
22. Eric Mottram, William Burroughs: The Algebra of Need (Buffalo, NY: Intrepid, 1971).
23. WSB, Last Words, 173.
24. WSB to Brion Gysin, October 22, 1971.
25. A conversation at Duke Street Saint James’s with an unknown visitor, taped by WSB, ca. 1972.
26. Cyril Vosper, The Mind Benders, 72.
27. The author was present at the meal.
28. WSB, The Job, 18.
29. WSB, The Place of Dead Roads, 177.
30. Morgan, tape 35 (labeled tape 34).
31. WSB to Paul Bowles, April 28, 1972.
32. WSB to Brion Gysin, n.d., draft in archives.
33. WSB to Brion Gysin, April 17, 1972.
34. Ibid.
35. Bob Colacello, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (New York: HarperCollins, 1990), 112.
36. Morgan, tape 62 (labeled tape 61).
Chapter Forty-Four
1. Sometimes attributed to Floyd Starr of Albion College, Michigan, 1910.
2. WSB, unpublished journals, June 8, 1983.
3. Morgan, tape 39.
4. WSB, Port of Saints, 50.
5. Ibid., 143.
6. WSB in conversation with John Brady, taped by WSB, ca. 1972.
7. WSB, Cities of the Red Night, 80.
8. Ibid., 40.
9. WSB interviewed by Bill Rich, April 23, 1991.
10. WSB, Cities of the Red Night, 49–52.
11. Victor Bockris, With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker, 38.
12. “The Rolling Stone Interview,” WSB interviewed by Robert Palmer, Rolling Stone, May 11, 1972.
13. David Bowie interviewed by WSB, Rolling Stone, February 28, 1974 (recorded November 17, 1973).
14. WSB to Billy Burroughs Jr., February 16, 1972.
15. WSB, The Western Lands, 110. “Cheney Walk” is correctly spelled Cheyne Walk, and is where Christopher Gibbs lived. “London Electric” was the London Electricity Board, known as the LEB.
16. WSB to Mack Sheldon Thomas, July 16, 1973.
17. Morgan, tape 39.
18. Morgan Ansen tapes.
19. WSB, Port of Saints (Calder edition), 148.
Chapter Forty-Five
1. Morgan, tape 42.
2. Daily News, October 30, 1975.
3. The most murders in one year were 2,605 in 1990; a decade later the number was reduced to 952, and at the time of writing, half that again.
4. Morgan, tape 40.
5. “Entretiens,” WSB interviewed by Gérard-George Lemaire, Colloque de Tanger 2, 260 (translated by Theo Miles).
6. Alan Ansen, The Table Talk of W. H. Auden (London, Faber & Faber, 1991), 85.
7. Correctly, “The wind that blows between the Worlds, it cut him like a knife.”
8. James Grauerholz interviewed by Ted Morgan, 1.
9. James Grauerholz, “Burroughs and Me” ms., February 26, 2004.
10. Morgan, tape 16.
11. WSB, The Job, 52.
12. “Burroughs After Lunch,” WSB interviewed by Joseph Barry, New York Post, March 10, 1963.
13. WSB interviewed by Jeff Shero, Rat, October 4, 1968.
14. WSB interviewed in NOLA Express, no. 61 (August 7, 1970) (New Orleans).
15. WSB interviewed in NOLA Express, no. 61 (August 7, 1970) (New Orleans) (taken from Jeff Shero’s two-part Rat interview).
16. Morgan, tape 40.
17. WSB to the author, London, June 1974.
18. Morgan, tape 40 (labeled tape 39).
19. Morgan, tape 54.
20. “The Invisible Man Returns,” WSB interviewed by Josh Feigenbaum, Soho Weekly News, July 25, 1974.
21. James Grauerholz to Allen Ginsberg, September 5, 1974.
22. WSB, “Rock Magic: Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin, and a Search for the Elusive Stairway to Heaven,” Crawdaddy, June 1975.
23. Morgan, tape 61 (labeled tape 59).
24. WSB, “My Punk Face Is Death,” in Unmuzzled Ox, no. 26 (1989) (from The Gay Gun, work in progress).
25. WSB to Paul Bowles, March 6, 1978.
26. Morgan, tape 14.
27. WSB, Retreat Diaries, [5–6][unpaginated].
28. WSB interviewed by Jim McMenamin in Across the Wounded Galaxies, ed. Larry McCaffery (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 45.
29. Ibid., 6.
30. Morgan, tape 70 (labeled tape 69).
31. “There are mistakes too monstrous for remorse / To fondle or to dally with, and failures / That only fate’s worst fumbling in the dark / Could have arranged so well.” Edward Arlington Robinson, “Tristram.”
32. James Grauerholz to Brion Gysin, May 25, 1976.
33. Brion Gysin to James Grauerholz, May 30, 1976.
Chapter Forty-Six
1. William S. Burroughs Jr., Cursed from Birth, 4
2. James Grauerholz to Claude Pélieu, July 13, 1976.
3. WSB, The Soft Machine, 56.
4. William S. Burroughs Jr., Cursed from Birth, 154.
5. Landmark Preservation Commission, November 17, 1998, Designation List 299 LP-2028; Neil MacFarquhar, “Mansion and Old ‘Y’ Are Named Landmarks,” New York Times, November 18, 1998.
6. Andy Warhol, The Andy Warhol Diaries, Saturday, March 1, 1980, 266.
7. Robert McNamara was U.S. secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968.
8. Morgan, tape 10.
9. Quoted by James Grauerholz in his interview by Ted Morgan, transcript, 22.
Chapter Forty-Seven
1. “Mutation, Utopia, and Magic,” WSB interviewed by Arthur Shingles, Undercurrents, no. 48 (November 1981).
2. Morgan, tape 69.
3. Quoted from an unidentified source in Hardy’s obituary, http://www.ashejournal.com/eight/mclean.shtml (accessed December 2012).
4. Morgan, tape 50.
5. Morgan, tape 53.
6. Morgan, tape 54.
7. Morgan, tape 49.
8. Cabell Hardy, “Playback: My Personal Experience of Chaos Magic with William S. Burroughs, Sr.,” http://www.ashe-prem.org/three/mclean.shtml (accessed December 2012).
9. Morgan, tape 69 (labeled tape 68).
10. Ibid.
11. See Michael Walsh, “ ‘I Wrote Your Fading Movie’: The Films of Antony Balch and William Burroughs,” Motion Picture vol. 4, no. 1 (Summer 1991).
12. Gerard Pas, “How I Came to Know William Burroughs,” http://www.gerardpas.com/library/memoirs/burrough.html (accessed December 2012).
13. Sylvère Lotringer interviewed by Marcus Niski, Reality Studio, http://realitystudio.org/interviews/interview-with-sylvre-lotringer-on-the-nova-convention (accessed December 2012).
14. Brion Gysin to WSB, October 12, 1978.
15. “Trip to Hell and Back,” WSB interviewed by Jerry Bauer, Trax (London), no. 6 (March 18, 1981).
16. Rachel Wolff, “Bohemian Rhapsody: Brion Gysin, William Burroughs, and the Secret Life of a Building on the Bowery,” New York Magazine, July 4, 2010.
17. Robert Palmer, “3-Day Nova Convention Ends at the Entermedia,” New York Times, December 4, 1978.
18. Ibid.
19. WSB to Gérard-Georges Lemaire, December 18, 1978. It is likely that the letter was mostly authored by James Grauerholz.
20. Victor Bockris interviewed by Dave Teeuwen, Reality Studio, http://realitystudio.org/interviews/interview-with-victor-bockris-on-william-burroughs (accessed December 2012).
21. WSB interviewed in Talk Talk 3.
6, [October?] 1981.
22. Victor Bockris, A Report from the Bunker, 32.
23. WSB interviewed by Ray Rumor [Raymond Foye], Search & Destroy, no. 10 (1978).
24. Morgan, tape 61 (labeled tape 60). The words are taken from the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun, a fourteenth-century Arab scholar from Tunis.
25. Ibid.
26. “Trip to Hell and Back,” WSB interviewed by Jerry Bauer, Trax (London), no. 6 (March 18, 1981).
27. WSB interviewed by Larry McCaffery in Across the Wounded Galaxies, ed. Larry McCaffery (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 38.
28. Morgan, tape 24.
29. Allen Ginsberg to Barry Miles, October 8, 1979.
30. WSB, Cities of the Red Night, 206. Burroughs spells the Jakes title “Brac.”
31. Morgan, tape 61 (labeled tape 60).
32. WSB, Last Words, 16.
33. Morgan, tape 40.
Chapter Forty-Eight
1. Morgan, tape 75 (labeled tape 76).
2. Morgan, tape 13.
3. Morgan, tape 26, and all references to the letter.
4. Ibid.
5. Diconal, a painkiller.
6. Stewart Meyer, Book of Days (unpublished).
7. Stewart Meyer to Ted Morgan, “Stu Meyer Notes,” 3.
8. Morgan, tape 55.
9. WSB in conversation with Victor Bockris, 1977.
10. John Giorno, from the booklet accompanying The Best of William Burroughs CD box set, 1998.
11. Ibid.
12. Morgan, tape 40 (labeled tape 39).
13. Morgan, tape 61 (labeled tape 60).
14. Ibid.
15. William S. Burroughs Jr., Cursed from Birth, 169.
16. Based on WSB, unpublished journal dated January 2, 1984.
17. Morgan, tape 26 (labeled tape 25).
18. Allen Ginsberg interviewed by Barry Miles, New York, 1985.
19. Burroughs had previously appeared on television a decade earlier in Britain with Dan Farson on January 8, 1964.
Chapter Forty-Nine
1. “An Ex-Junkie Exterminator,” WSB interviewed by Lynn Snowden, Guardian, April 25, 1992.
2. Morgan, tape 2.
3. Morgan, tape 62 (labeled tape 61).
4. Ibid.
5. WSB, Last Words, 158.
6. WSB interviewed by Duncan Fallowell, Time Out, September 24, 1982.
7. Morgan, tape 55.
8. James Grauerholz interviewed by the author, March 2012.
9. Frank Tankard, “William S. Burroughs: 10 Years After,” Lawrence.com, http://www.lawrence.com/news/2007/jul/30/burroughs_student (accessed January 2013).
10. WSB, The Cat Inside, 23.
11. Morgan, tape 58 (labeled tape 57).
12. WSB interviewed by Jim McMenamin in Across the Wounded Galaxies, ed. Larry McCaffery (Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1990), 51.