Dreams have always been a source of imagery in Burroughs' work. In this text, hundreds of dreams - intense, vivid, visionary - form the spiralling core of a haunting journey into perception.
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Dreams have always been a source of imagery in Burroughs' work. In this text, hundreds of dreams - intense, vivid, visionary - form the spiralling core of a haunting journey into perception.
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Fine. Text in English, Spanish. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 193 p. Audience: General/trade. Burroughs' last novel published before his death in 1997, a compilation of his dreams over the decades. Most of the dreams are concerned with mundane affairs: talking to his friends Ian Sommerville, Allen Ginsberg and Brion Gysin; protecting his cats; trying to get sex, drugs or something to eat. There are flying dreams, erotic suitcase-packing dreams, dreams of being bullied by men in uniforms. There are references to strange drugs such as "Jade" and "Bogomolets Anti-Human Serum 125." In addition, there are other segments which seem unconcerned with dreams at all, such as a chapter where Burroughs instructs the reader on how to create botulism. There is a place he refers to as the Land of the Dead, which, like Interzone, seems to be a conglomeration of many cities: Tangiers, London, Paris, and others. ---------New old stock, just taken out of decades of storage in a lightproof drawer in a nonsmoking home. No writing, bends folds, tears, or other issues.
To have heard Burroughs' voice makes reading his work even more of an experience. A personal book for Burroughs, this can be considered the only memoir we will get. The greatest 193 pages of text you could ever read.
