{"id":610,"date":"2008-08-04T21:16:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-04T21:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skullcull.wordpress.com\/?p=610"},"modified":"2025-06-23T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T01:15:21","slug":"turn-the-page-william-s-burroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/skullcull.com\/?p=610","title":{"rendered":"Turn The Page: William S Burroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I wanted to celebrate the books which I have in my William Burroughs collection so I found this site and hunted down all the covers of the books I actually own. Someone on a forum recently asked who rewired my head and the guy who did it first and keeps doing it was Burroughs. A lot of my other literary heroes were inspired by him as well. It would be hard to overestimate the first time I read him and the impact it had on me — a new way to write — a challenge thrown down which you have to ask, how many people took it up? There was always something egoless about Burroughs experimentation; something still fresh. I think it is true of the other two members of the holy trinity of the beat movement too — Kerouac and Ginsberg. Burroughs seems even less bound by time and space than they were though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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