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Subject Source: Sackner Database

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

A Humument-Notes on a Work in Progress / Phillips, Tom; Burroughs WS., 1970

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Identifier: CC-54490-52507
Scope and Contents

This article provides the background for Phillips' "A Humument" and is illustrated with two pages and two fragments from his altered Victorian novel by W.H. Mallock's "A Human Document." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1970

biencher charlequin [Charles Cameron] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Burroughs WS., 1967

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Identifier: CC-57855-10001106
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Cameron writes that this "letter in blue type addressed 'biencher charlequin' regarding my arrest for possession of a small quantity of hash, with 23 word handwritten dsh comments." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1967

Croisement de Signes / Koraichi R ; Michaux H ; Burroughs WS ; Restany P ; Arp H ; Hausmann R ; Michaux H ; Miro J ; Bella B ; Degottex J ; Gysin B ; Hassan S ; U-Fan L ; Butor M ; Rossell B ; Quentin B ; Ruscha E., 1989

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Identifier: CC-35618-37365
Scope and Contents

This catalogue features experimental calligraphic paintings by Ben Bella, Brion Gysin, Jean Degottex, Shakir Hassan, and Lee I-Fan. William Burroughs' interview of Brion Gysin is titled "Points de Passage." Pierre Restany contributed an essay on the work of Lee U-Fan. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1989

Cut-Up / Weissner, Carl, editor ; Burroughs WS ; Beach M ; Nuttall J ; Pelieu C ; Gysin B ; Ford CH., 1969

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Identifier: CC-00235-243
Scope and Contents

This is an anthology in German of articles which appeared in English in Arcade No.1 (1964), in Klacto/23 (1967), Insect Trust Gazette No.2 (1962) & No.4 (1968) and Writers Forum No.21 (1966). These dealt with the cut-up technique of making fiction pioneered by Burroughs and Gysin. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1969

Ecritures: Le Temps des Naguals. No.16 / Brion Gysin ; William S. Burroughs., 1987

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Identifier: CC-13562-13865
Scope and Contents

Edited by Jean-Marc Vincent. Consists mainly of interviews of Gysin and Burroughs. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1987

Facts and Fiction: The Fales Library and Special Collections at New York University / Carroll L ; Joyce J ; Stein G ; cummings ee ; Burroughs WS ; Spiegelman A ; Kostelanetz R ; Korn H., 1999

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Identifier: CC-33909-35581
Scope and Contents

Includes a reference and illustration of the Seventh Assembling compiled by Richard Kostelanetz and Henry Korn. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1999

Here to Go: Planet R-101 / Gysin, Brion ; Wilson, Terry ; Burroughs WS ; Girodias M., 1982

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Identifier: CC-10090-10291
Scope and Contents

Gysin is interviewed by Wilson, with an introduction by William S. Burroughs. They discuss Morocco, magic, science, literature, painting and music. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1982

isis. No.1497/Oct / Andrew Lawson, editor ; Furnival J ; Cobbing B ; Houedard DS ; Miles ; Ferlinghetti L ; Burroughs WS., 1965

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Identifier: CC-55670-57971
Scope and Contents

This issue features a cover by John Furnival, a description of "better books,' a bookshop managed by Bob Cobbing, and an article on Fascism. it is stored in the box holding Furnival material. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1965

Last Words / Burroughs, William S.., 1997

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Identifier: CC-28338-29519
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The essay consists of excerpts from the journal of Burroughs from May 3 to his final entry on "August 1, Fliday," the day before his death. It reads, "Love? What is it? Most natural painkiller. What there is. LOVE." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1997

Let The Mice In, 1973

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Identifier: CC-51251-72339
Scope and Contents

This book was edited by Jan Herman. Gysin documents the making of cut-ups and his "Dream Machine" in this book. Also, this book includes three labels from the exhibition "Beyond Geometry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Letter to my dear angelboy (John Sharkey?)] / Houedard, Dom Sylvester; Sharkey JJ; Sharkey W ; Burroughs WS., 1973

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Identifier: CC-56693-10000083
Scope and Contents

The first paragraph in this letter to John Sharkey (?) expresses Houedard's dismay at the marital problems of Wendy and John Sharkey. The letter contiues with Houedards future projects including writing on Buddhism and poetry and a review of Naked Lunch. He writes "anyway pornography zen concrete catholic-atheism all seem to fit in smooth with wittgensien where he says old postion was : we all had these private minds & ideas originated in them & they cld learn all abt BODIES & got their information thru the body - but NEVER cld know another human mind..." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1973

[Letter to Richard Aaron (March 6, 1977)] / Gibbs, Michael; Gysin B; Carrion U; Burroughs WS; Chopin H; Dufrene F; Heidsieck B; Cobbing B; Mon F; Hanson S; Johnson BE; Nannucci M; Lora-Totino A., 1977

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Identifier: CC-43896-46000
Scope and Contents

Gibbs asks Aaron for books and mentions his working on Kontextsound to accompany the sound poetry festival ar Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

[Letter to Richard Aaron (November 1, 1975)] / Gibbs, Michael; Chopin H; Burroughs WS., 1977

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Identifier: CC-43894-45998
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Gibbs mentions that he wants to publish parts of Burroughs "The Third Mind" in Kontexts and that he is translating a piece from Henri Chopin in "difficult French. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1977

Mail Action / P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer ; Burroughs WS ; Breakwell I., 1976

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Identifier: CC-42236-44242
Scope and Contents

The book mainly documents the indictment and trial of the author for sending five "indecent" postcards in the mail. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 1976

Mail Action (reprint) / P-Orridge, Genesis Breyer ; Burroughs WS ; Breakwell I., 2002

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Identifier: CC-42237-44243
Scope and Contents

The book mainly documents the indictment and trial of the author for sending five "indecent" postcards in the mail. It is reprinted from the 1976 edition; the back covers differ. The loose sheets consist of a biography and bibliography. The photograph depicts a visual poem related to Queen Elizabeth. The rubberstamp reads unsolicited pornography and is stored separately. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates: 2002