Queer Beats by Regina Marler

Author:Regina Marler [Marler, Regina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781573447461
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 2011-08-18T04:00:00+00:00

Brion Gysin

from Cut-ups: A Project for Disastrous Success

[The queer polymath Brion Gysin was a friend of Paul Bowles in Tangier in the mid-1950s and had a restaurant there called the Thousand and One Nights, popular with the expatriate crowd. Gysin lost the business days after discovering, inside a ventilator, a hideous charm of seeds, menstrual blood, pubic hair, and other tokens, wrapped in a message to the Jinn of the Hearth: “May Massa Brahim [Brion] leave this house as the smoke leave this fire, never to return.” His path had crossed Burroughs’s in Tangier, but the men did not take to each other. They met again in Paris in 1958 and soon became close platonic friends and collaborators, sharing an interest in magic, mind control, and gadgetry. Both lived in Madame Rachou’s “Beat Hotel” on the rue Git le Coeur. With Gysin, Burroughs pioneered the Cut-Up, a technique for producing randomized but eerily sensible texts.—ed.]

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