...The symbolism of his background is striking. Part of his - TopicsExpress



          

...The symbolism of his background is striking. Part of his childhood landscape was blown up by an atomic bomb when his Los Alamos boarding school was taken over by the Manhattan Project. His uncle Ivy Lee was the father of PR, initially for the Rockefeller oil and banking magnates (at the time of the Ludlow Massacre) before undergoing ruin in the thankless task of acting as Adolf Hitlers U.S. spin doctor. Burroughs grandfather and namesake had patented the Burroughs Adding Machine, a device on the pathway to the computer age and whose advert, published in the year of his birth, seems to contain some of the conspiratorial unease that would follow in William juniors work... thequietus/articles/14434-william-burroughs-100-birthday-writer-centenary
Posted on: Sun, 14 Sep 2014 01:53:21 +0000

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