Talk:William S. Burroughs
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Re: Message from Jack Arcalon
Yes, Conservapedia is delighted if other websites proliferate its material.
It would be very complicated trying to synthesize the articles. The one from Wikipedia is far too long and that in itself gives the impression that Burroughs is far more important a writer than he is. All part of an ideological bias in favor of homosexual writers.
A lot of the present article is devoted to repeating the accolades of very dubious people e.g. Norman Mailer who is quoted twice "Burroughs is often called one of the greatest and most influential writers of the 20th century, most notably by Norman Mailer whose quote on Burroughs, "The only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius", appears on many Burroughs publications. " An Accolade from the likes of Jean Genet is not an accolade worth much in the eyes of most decent people. Petronella (talk)
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That would be allowed according to Conservapedia's copyleft conditions:
http://www.conservapedia.com/Conservapedia:Copyright
For starters, the missing info could just be added to the article as it is. Then any biased text that is there already could be corrected, or removed.--Jack-arcalon (talk) 22:31, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
Suggestion:
Looks as if this page is just copied straight from Wikipedia.
I would suggest adapting it to be a lot more like the snappy Conservapedia entry:
William Seward Burroughs (1914-1997) author regarded as a "gay icon" and one of the founders of the American Gay Liberation movement. He was a drug addict and a pedophile, and was prosecuted for obscenity and manslaughter. His works include The Naked Lunch (1959), Nova Express (1964), and Cities of the Red Night (1981).[1] He is sometimes nicknamed "William Sewer Burroughs".
His life and writings demonstrate the close links between homosexuality, pedophilia and the LGBT movement in which the latter has always flourished.
Life
Burroughs was born February 5, 1914.[2] He came from a rich family who sent him to private school where he started homosexual activity at the age of 13. He studied at Harvard University[3] and his parents were wealthy enough to pay him an allowance so he did not have to work. He spent the money on heroin, to which he soon became addicted, and on travelling to Berlin and Vienna, where he picked up boys in Turkish baths. A similar motive led him to travel through Mexico, and Colombia.
Joan Vollmer, a former asylum inmate, shacked up with Burroughs, and managed to have a child by him before he drunkenly shot her dead one day in Mexico. His rich family used bribery to get him out of gaol. Burroughs was a lifelong heroin addict and after his parents died he became a dealer to finance his habit. He was a disturbed and psychotic person who once cut off part of one of his fingers to give to a man with whom he was infatuated.[4]
He died on 2 August 1997. [5]
Links with Pedophilia
After shooting his wife, Burroughs escaped to Tangier in Morocco where he stayed with a pimp who supplied boy prostitutes for rich customers from Europe. The place suited him down to the ground especially as drugs were freely available. In Mexico and Colombia he found it easy to purchase the services of young rent-boys with his powerful dollar. “The Mexican boys cost Burroughs three pesos apiece.” [6]
His novels are full of allusions to pederastic behaviour and homosexual fantasies.
He was a close associate of the homosexual pedophile Allen Ginsberg who shared his tastes and activities. Some of the things they did to Arab boys are too horrifying to be described here. [7]
Works and Critical Reputation
Burroughs achieved fame more for obscenity than for literary merit. He wrote Junkie: Confessions of an Unredeemed Drug Addict (1953) and The Naked Lunch (1959). His novels are pornographic and incoherent, full of scatological obsession, crude pederastic fantasy and disgusting violence. An leftwing critic writes of him “For B, homosexuality is only revolutionary when it escapes the model of normative heterosexual love, which constructs the self as a subject by reducing the loved Other to an object”. [8] The truth is just the opposite. Lust of the degraded type Burroughs describes is what reduces the other person to an object, and in fact, everything in his writing degrades everybody below the level of human. If a disturbed sociopath is revolutionary, then he is certainly "revolutionary".
Other critics criticize Burroughs for his “neo-imperialist” attitudes. Brendan Nicholls comments that Burroughs mirrored his own experiences when describing how an American in Morocco buys boys as sex-slaves. The vendor describes the boys as if they are objects, used cars, even using the pronoun “it”. “One owner and he was a doctor, a once-over-lightly, twice a week type citizen. It’s young and it’s tender.” The critic admits that the boy is “monstrously commodified”. [9]
Sadism and exploitation are the hallmarks of Burroughs’ fantasies. He has been called a "dirty old poet" and "totally gross". [10]
Homosexual Activism
In the 1960s Burroughs and Ginsberg joined the “gay” liberation movement. They decided that they were being oppressed by all those sober, decent fathers of families who worked 60 hours per week for forty years and spent 90% of their earnings on their wives and children... yes, they were being oppressed by all those women who lived as faithful, devoted wives and suffered convulsive pains in childbirth to make life possible for others!
Son's Suicide
In 1981 Burroughs’ son Billy published an article in Esquire magazine stating that he had been molested in Morocco at the age of 14 by one of his father’s homosexual friends. He exposed Burroughs as a thoroughly bad parent, accused him of poisoning his life, and committed suicide shortly afterwards.
See also Allen Ginsberg Pedophilia
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- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall, New York, 1993.
- ↑ "Burroughs, William S." Biography.com. http://www.biography.com/people/william-s-burroughs-9232376
- ↑ "William S. Burroughs." Famous Authors http://www.famousauthors.org/william-s-burroughs
- ↑ Grauerholz, James. Introduction p. xv, in William Burroughs. Interzone. New York: Viking Press, 1987.
- ↑ "Burroughs, William S." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
- ↑ Naked Lunch @ 50: Anniversary Essays, edited by Oliver C. G. Harris, Ian MacFadyen, SIU Press, 2009 p.94.
- ↑ http://worldnewstrust.com/beat-writer-pedophiles-and-the-white-male-leftists-who-love-them-mickey-z
- ↑ Wising Up the Marks: The Amodern William Burroughs, Timothy S. Murphy University of California Press, 6 Dec 1997,159.
- ↑ War-torn Tales: Literature, Film and Gender in the Aftermath of World War II, edited by Danielle E. Hipkins, Gill Plain p.232
- ↑ https://www.theawl.com/2010/08/burroughs-and-ginsberg-literary-heroes-and-totally-gross-sex-predators/
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Vollmer http://www.out.com/entertainment/today-gay-history/2014/02/05/william-burroughs-100-barry-miles-gary-indiana http://voice1nthecrowd.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/homosexuality-and-paedophilia-part-2.html