AHH. AMAZINGNESS.<3


beautiful, sobbing
high geared fucking
and then to lie silently
like deer tracks in the
freshly-fallen snow beside
the one you love.
Thats all. -RB
….I love him
(via cosmic-dust)
Me too, forever and ever!
The Book Cover Archive: Do Me, design by Sean Tejaratchi
the definition of lit-porn, realized
Great design (and surely I’m not the only dirty-minded literary horndog who saw this and flinched at the idea of getting paper cuts on my tongue right?)


Camus, happy and absurd - Loomis Dean, LIFE
Camus, happy and absurd - Loomis Dean, LIFE
“Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire”
“Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”
- A Happy Death, 1971


“He lived with as many as six cats at a time: the ‘people,’ he claimed, to whom he felt closest.”
Edward Gorey is my hero.
James Baldwin & Allen Ginsberg
Albion Bookstore
Amherst, MA. March 22, 1986
(photographer unknown)
Thurston Moore speaking about William Burroughs at St Mark’s Poetry Project
Naked Lunch @ 50 in New York, 7 October 2009…
Photo: Andre Perkowski
via Naked Lunch @ 50


“Language,” William S. Burroughs reminded us, “is a virus from outer space.” Performance artist Laurie Anderson adds, “That’s why I’d rather hear your name than see your face.” This metaphor captures beautifully both the power and the danger presented by the task of communicating the “flux of wholeness,” as Heather Raikes describes the rheomode.
Raikes’ use of the rheomode suggests that technology might be seen not just as a channel for communication and performance, but more radically as the environment in which subjects serve as conduits for experience. A virus operates autonomously, without human intervention. It attaches itself to a host and feeds off of it, growing and spreading from host to host. Language infects us; its power derives not from its straightforward ability to communicate or persuade but rather from this infectious nature, this power of bits of language to graft itself onto other bits of language, spreading and reproducing, using human beings as hosts.


Oh LIFE:
“Author William Burroughs, an ex-dope addict, relaxing on a shabby bed in what is known as a Beat Hotel.” - photo by Loomis Dean, 1959
Kerouac family in a bar, 1944. From left to right: Jack Kerouac, Caroline (“Nin”) Kerouac, Gabrielle Kerouac, and Leo Kerouac.(via)