On 09/04/2016 05:21 PM, John Newman wrote: > >> 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 ...
Best read them in order :) I believe that _The Western Lands_ was his last novel. It's very much Burroughs' "Book of the Dead". > 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 >>> >>> > >
