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In Memory of Bill Burroughs - Site Online
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- Subject: In Memory of Bill Burroughs - Site Online
- From: imail
- Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 00:36:30 +1000
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See http://www.thei.aust.com/bill/burroughs.html for a 'cut-up', 'fold-in'
site dedicated to the late and great hard man of Hip, WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS.
Includes: feature article, interview, book excerpts, quotes from Burroughs
and Gysin + an 'Images & Text' section, featuring Burroughs' art, quotes
about his work + many photographs ...
"What we call 'art' - painting, sculpture, writing, dance, music - is
magical in origin. That is, it was originally employed for ceremonial
purposes to produce very definite effects. In the world of magic nothing
happens unless someone wants it to happen, and there are certain magical
formulae to channel and direct the will. The artist is trying to make
something happen in the mind of the viewer or reader." - William S.
Burroughs