Rub Out the Words: The Letters of William S. Burroughs 1959-1974 by William S. Burroughs

Author:William S. Burroughs [Burroughs, William S.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Ecco
Published: 2012-02-07T05:00:00+00:00

Bill

WSB [London] to Claude Pelieu* [New York]

Nov. 10, 1966

8 Duke Street

St James

London S.W.1

England

Dear Claude Pelieu

I have been ill, went to Tangier to recuperate, now back in London with winter grippe living in present time is less and less bearable, paralyzing in fact and you need more and more money to buy bearable conditions. I simply have not been able to write any letters for some time. APO 33 is an excellent job many thanks and let us hope it has some effect. I have given the extra copies you sent to the Indica Book Shop here. The enemy is delineated by the areas they attempt to block and no area is as dangerous to their plans than apomorphine. On a number of occasions I have received letters from doctors and twice from officials, a probation officer in California and a man in Vancouver in charge of prison reform. In all cases, sent material (articles I had written, copies of Doctor Dent’s book Anxiety and Its Treatment—now out of print here). They wrote back promising action, then the curtain falls. Not another word, all my letters unanswered. This has happened at least five times.

Right now I am working again with tape recorders which seems to me the best possibility of breakthrough. Have you seen the International Times edited by—I think his name is Tom McGrath, not sure just slipped out of my mind—any case I have given them an article on tape recorder experiments which should appear in the next issue or the issue after that and I will follow through with additional articles and I hope get a large enough number of people experimenting with recorders to turn up some results. I will send you a run off of the article as soon as I have the run offs. Basic premise is “what we see and experience is to a large extent dictated by what we hear and anyone with a tape recorder is in position to decide what he hears and what other people hear or overhear as well.”

I have been following your contributions to My Mag. Interesting you should mention scopolamine words. I was once poisoned by an overdose of scopolamine and had in fact written something about this experience just before I saw your piece with special reference to the words the scopolamine words reported to me by those who restrained me from stepping off a forty foot balcony onto imaginary staircase or walking out stark naked into the streets with an old laundry ticket I thought was a morphine prescription. The words were.. “What’s the use trying to save money? It all goes for razor blades,” followed by a rendition of “Deep In The Heart Of Texas.”

I will write a commentary on your With Revolvers Aimed and return to you as soon as possible. My best regard to Mary Beach

All the Best

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