Burroughs?

[Toby Levy]

Sorry, I just don't see Burroughs in this light, and I don't see how
an assumption can be made that a young author was a "fan" simply
because the older author was on the cover of Life magazine as being
the new voice of the Beats.

I read Burroughs back in the 60s and I just didn't think he wrote very well.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ian Livingston <igrlivingston at gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1:32 AM
Subject: Re: Burroughs?
To: Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com>
Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org


On what score? Burroughs was popular among the late beats, the
beatniks, and the early hippies. Why, from this distance, would we
assume that an aspiring young writer of considerable genius would not
be influenced by someone perceived to be moving along the cutting edge
of culture in his time?

On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 8:57 PM, Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just don't think Pynchon would be a fan of Burroughs.  I disagree
> with your assessment of Burroughs' talents.
>
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> From: Henry M <scuffling at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 5:06 PM
> Subject: Re: Burroughs?
> To: Pynchon Liste <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>
>
> I have always assume that it was assumed, i.e. without reason other
> than they're both excellent, cool, and experimental.
>
> AsB4,
> ٩(●̮̮̃•̃)۶
> Henry Mu
> http://astore.amazon.com/tdcoccamsaxe-20
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> http://www.artlyst.com/articles/william-s-burroughs-explored-through-his-visual-art
>>
>> The above posting claims that Pynchon is a fan of Burroughs. I can't
>> remember reading this before.  Where does this assertion come from?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Toby



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