Queer William Burroughs Pdf [upd] Page

to the accidental shooting of his wife, Joan Vollmer. He claimed the book was a motivated attempt to exorcise the "Ugly Spirit" he felt possessed him during that traumatic period. The Development of the "Routine":

We cannot start this post without the caveat. Burroughs was a queer icon who accidentally killed his wife, Joan Vollmer. He was a misogynist. He was a heroin advocate. He wrote about child sexuality in ways that make modern readers wince. But here’s the queer dialectic: We don’t have to love the man to weaponize his text. The PDF allows us to extract the virus without ingesting the poison. We can highlight the passages about the tenderness of male junkies in Mexico City while deleting the editorial introductions that apologize for his violence. queer william burroughs pdf

Set in a spectral, post-WWII Mexico City, the novella follows William Lee, an expat suffering from heroin withdrawal and a desperate, unrequited infatuation with Eugene Allerton. Google Books The "Ugly Spirit": to the accidental shooting of his wife, Joan Vollmer