William S. Burroughs - LAST WORDS OF HASSAN SABBAH
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Assembled from the experimental films and recordings of the Beat literary icon. An eerily prophetic work from the cut-up period of the 1960's, Last Words of Hassan Sabbah is quintessential Burroughs, an artist who lived life on the periphery of Western civilization in order to distance himself from the control mechanisms that permiate culture.
"Play it all, play it all, play it all back / pay it all, pay it all, pay it all back" (2,38)
Wonderful
It reminds me of the millions and millions of images of me of me, such an amazing mind
I've been revisiting this text and this film for years and it never ceases to hypnotize and inspire me. Sublime Paranoia
I love William Burroughs.
Last night I dreamt that I was in a car with Burroughs while I was reading Naked Lunch. I stopped the car and Burroughs got out. I gave him the book and said ''Look after this would you Mr Burroughs?"
He then said, "Wow, this is mine!"
I then drove away waving.
Wonderful dream.
He wrote in a variety of styles, from conventional pros to totaly surealistic. This style leans towards the later. It is *cut up, where he cut up pages of newspapers, books, or his own writing, pasted them together randomly and then typed up the result. It was an old Dada/surealist style. He was doing it with tapes, too, as far back as the fifties, which was eventualy picked up (around the eighties or ninties) and became sampling. This guy was very far ahead of his time.
Perhaps, the greatest of William's audio pieces The Last Words of Hassam E. Sabbah. The footage is terrific, a gas. Has to be stolen from Harry Smith or Allen (Ginsberg) but as William always said, "the day the black blood of plagiarism entered my veins I became a free man. So,..."don't let them see us, don't let them know who we are, don't let that out, minutes to go, seconds to go, squeezing the air, minutes to goo, you have the wrong number." I know, he was my friend.
nice....do you know richard aron ?
Vaguely terrifying. He sounds like an evil mirror-ghost lecturing you.
Vaguely? These are some of the most horrifying truest words ever put down in the English language. Regardless of recording technique and you find them vaguely ghost-like. Was 1984 set in a mildly dysfunctional time of change?
Truly prophetic.
thank you for posting this.
Of course it does! You can not be hypnotic and magical without saying anything, phonetic writing it's plain pleasure, magic it's a different thing. I suggest you to read the text of this poem and think about it, you'll find a pretty good answer to your question!
Eternal text...Eternal William! He is somewhere in Western Lands and smiling after all :)
This is different than the Nova Express version. The Nova Experss version has at least one segment that is missing here (it goes something like: "premature? give us more time?" more time for what? for more lies? these words are not premature. these words may be too late)
this is where the phrase 'heavy metal' comes from btw. fun fact! Burroughs invented it.
It was already a chemistry term. I'm sure that's where Burroughs got it. Uranian Willy was the Heavy Metal Kid, after all.
Nice to see Brion Gysin and Bil Garver as well. ThX for posTing
thank you
"don't tell them what we are doing - " 2024 Gaza
The most important piece of writing after Yalta.
THX for This.
I rub out the word forever
Nothing is real, everything is permitted
Hassan Sabbah was the founder of Hashashin.
I get the feeling that if Burroughs had been any more 'objective' with his critique of our western perspectives that His name would have long since been rubbed out forever.
eg; the 'Hassan Sabbah Twist' is very troubling when trying to remain unbiased in perspective; like rethinking Marco Polo's supposed account of "The Old Man and the Mountain" as either a classic case of 'cultural projection' or part of some 'cultural engineering project' that doesn't quite set well within the western mind.
...not that "I" personally have any opinion on the matter that is...
1:38 Geddy Lee?
J Paul Getty.
I love how everyone speaks of his writing talent without ever knowing that William S. Burroughs was CIA.
Interviewed personally by Wild Bill Donovan.
And was rejected, or left the interview more accurately.
Too bad that's just a story someone tells. You will never know what they truth is.
Duane Hayes It's kind of obvious if you read his work between the lines. His books are full of magick, menace and hidden secrets for those who look carefully.
But we will never know if he was or not. He was Rentokil man who knew secrets beyond secrets.
The last words of #coronavirus
Who is Hassan Sabbah he's talking about? Is he talking about the inventor ? please if you know the answer post it..
Hassan-I-Sabbah was called the Old Man of the Mountain. He was a 12th-century Persian leader who trained assassins ('hashishiens,' from which the modern word hashish derives) by giving them hashish, putting them in his gardens, having young girls to tend them, and making them think they were in paradise, and to get to paradise they had only to follow his orders and kill who he said to kill. He was the founder of the surviving Nizari Ismaili Muslim sect.
wrong name / wrong number
Dont tell dem dat 🥸🥳😏😚🤪😜
The Banana Splits brought me here.
how the hell u know what his last words were, unless u have it recorded
chaka khan, chaka khan
.........really?
Nothing's true,
Everything is perimt
for this you have sold your sons forever?
This is not profound at all. Its gibberish and nonsense to the point where affluent people think its profound but its nonsense with a robotic voice.