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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official statistics have been released but Canadian government spokesmen say requests for visa applications have soared since Iranina militants took American diplomats hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Tehran...
...more recent books, The Wild Boys and Exterminator!, brought Burroughs closer to the literary mainstream--one might say of Exterminator!, as Burroughs said of In Cold Blood, that it could have been written by any staff writer on The New Yorker. The technique of "cut-up"-- Burroughs' application of the montage concept in painting to writing--seems to be used more as an inspirational device before writing than as a writing technique. And his latest book, due for publication late this year, brings Burroughs even closer to conventionality, at least as close as a writer who killed his wife...
...certainly the longest and most ambitious novel I've attempted. It'll be at least 500 pages, which is about double the length of books that I've written prior to that...Stylistically it is, I would say, much more conventional than what I've done heretofore. It involves time travel, it involves pirates who invent the cartridge gun in the early 18th century and with this invention take over the whole of South America...
...would say generally the aim of art--that is, painting, writing, and, in fact, all creative thought--is to make people aware of what they know and don't know that they know." Asked if he still subscribed to his artistic manifesto in Naked Lunch ("I am not an entertainer"), Burroughs demurred. "I wouldn't agree with that," he said. "Not anymore...