The Ticket That Exploded (Burroughs, William S.)
by William S. Burroughs
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Author: William S. BurroughsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1994-01-12
ISBN: 0802151507
Number of pages: 217
Publisher: Grove Press
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It is difficult to attach the concept of attainment and climax to Burrough's texts, the act of reading as a sexual encounter is never teleoligcial: as an historical moment, and these moments lace in and out of his work, The Ticket That Exploded marks the final move in his journey through Nova control lines and the elucidation of techniques of subversion. The text marks a cleft and an absence rather than a revolution, which Burrough's shows to be an act always already ingested by Nova logic. "Nova" itself signs the problematics of the new and original. The words writhe uneasily in gestures of self canabalism, and indeed here is one of the few places where the author speaks explicitly of repetition. Deleuze reading Burroughs...Burrroughs reading Deleuze? Neither. The Law is moving in - This is Nova Heat. Once the movement to Difference occurs, and to my mind this is located as a singularity in the last quarter of the text, the text is freed and seethes in a vertical spiral about any singular point in the work. This is a horizontal play of words in which chance regulates a different logic of alterity. We as readers are free to pin the work at any point with the stabbing singualrity of an "I" (the nails from a crucified God?). We are free to chose our own Sils Marias. This work is a monstruous and ephemeral monument to the hollow idols of our Humanity. It is a payground of chance. "do you get the picture" Read the text and feel yourself re-written. "Even better than the real thing? There is no real thing - Maya Maya - it's all show business"
Summary of The Ticket That Exploded (Burroughs, William S.)
In The Ticket That Exploded, William S. Burroughs?s grand cut-up trilogy, which began with The Soft Machine and continues through Nova Express, reaches its climax as Inspector Lee and the Nova Police engage the Nova Mob in a decisive battle for the planet.
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