> On Sep 3, 2016, at 8:59 PM, Mirimir <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 09/03/2016 06:51 AM, John Newman wrote: >>> On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 12:03:56AM -0600, Mirimir wrote: >>> I wouldn't say monastic. Just private. Read old Bill Burroughs' stuff >>> about the Johnson Family. >> >> It's been years since I read Naked Lunch or any of the other cut-up >> novels (although I did re-read Junkie and Queer recently)... > > If you like the Johnsons, you gotta read his last trilogy: _Cities of > the Red Night_, _The Place of Dead Roads_ and _The Western Lands_. >
Funny you mention it - The Western Lands is on my book shelf right now. I don't seem to have copies of the other two, but I can dig them up somewhere ... John >> Still, I remember the Johnsons... the correct interpretation of WWJD >> is, of course, What Would a Johnson Do ? > > Right, WWJD :) His Johnsons are cypherpunks. Recall who he was. An heir > of Burroughs Corporation founders. > >> John >> >>
