jr. joan was addicted apt benzedrine

after burroughs left south america, he stable in tangier, where he could live cheaply and get the drugs he needed. burroughs has said namely the decease of his wife gave him a literary career. he felt that he had been possessed by an invader, "the hideous spirit," who controlled him at the period of the chance and maneuvered him into a lifelong skirmish, "in which i have had no choise besides to write my course out."
however burroughs collaborated aboard a witty limn with a classmate, kells elvins, by harvard and completed a short novel written in the style of dashiell hammett with kerouac,sports shoes store, either goes were rejected by publishers, and burroughs did not muse of himself as a author. instead, his search as an identity led him apt deliberately seek out a murderer life.

on september 6,the best shoes, 1951, burroughs accidentally killed his wife and was charged in mexico city with criminal imprudence. his parents took over the care of billy junior and brought him to their family in florida. unlocked on bail, burroughs left mexico and voyaged in south america seeing for a drug cried yage. his letters to ginsberg describing his experiences in the cities, forests, and mountains of ecuador and peru were collected in his volume afterward published by city lights as the yage letters (1963), which burroughs thought would amuse readers after the success of aldous huxley's the doors of perception in 1954.
in the spring of 1950 burroughs' age harvard friend kells elvins visited him in mexico city and talked him into writing a factual book approximately his pill experience as a "memories training." burroughs set himself on a journal schedule, helped by injections of morphine. he finished the project in december, captioned his book junk, and set the manuscript to lucien carr in new york. deeding as an proxy for both burroughs and kerouac. ginsberg was skillful to get the book published as a pulp paperback in 1953 beneath the pseudonym "william lee" with the lurid subtitle confessions of an unredeemed drug addict."



william burroughs was born on february 5, 1914, in st. louis, missouri, the grandson of the inventor of the burroughs adding machine. later his graduation from harvard, he lived in chicago and new york on an income of 2 hundred dollars a month from his parents. he met lucien carr and allen ginsberg in new york city around christmas 1943 shortly later ginsberg began studying at columbia, and burroughs impressed them with his erudition, as well as his sardonic humor and reserved poise. older than the others in the team, he took on the role of pedagogue, encouraging kerouac and ginsberg in their tries to write fiction and poetry.
william s. burroughs
(1914-1997)

in the hope that he would feel at home in a "community of outlaws," burroughs began purchasing stolen goods, including morphine syrettes, and became addicted to morphine. in 1947 he began to live with joan vollmer, variant membership of the group around the columbia campus, and they had a son william s. burroughs, jr. joan was addicted to benzedrine, and they migrated to new orleans, texas, and mexico city where drugs were more accessible available.

in february 1957 kerouac came to visit him in tangier and began to type the hundreds of handwritten pages of burroughs' new book that kerouac titled nude lunch. writing it, burroughs said he was "shitting out my taught middlewest background after all. it's a material of catharsis, where i mention the maximum horrible entities i can think of. accomplish that--the most horrible filthy smily fearful niggardliest posture possible. . . ."
burroughs continued to work on the book until it's publishing in 1959, thinking of it as a picaresque novel narrated by an change ego, "william lee." as his biographer, ted morgan, understood, burroughs shared ginberg and carr's "new vision" of the writer as an outcast and creating a "literature of hazard." the compression and urgency of ########## luncheon in "the fragmentation of the txt namely favor the discontinutity of the addict's life among fixes. . . . for burroughs sees addiction as a general condition not restricted to drugs. politics, religion, the family, love,air force 1 hight, are entire forms of addiction. in the post-bomb society, entire the mainstays of the social array have lost their averaging, and bankrupt nation-states are scamper by 'control addicts.'" burroughs' composition "deposition: testimony concerning a sickness." describing an tentative remedy for herion addiction amplified by a london physician, was published in the evergreen review in 1960.