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Time (book)
[edit]| Author | William S. Burroughs |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Brion Gysin |
| Publisher | "C" Press |
Publication date | 1965 |
| Media type | printed pamphlet |
| Pages | 30 |
Time by William S. Burroughs, with illustrations by Brion Gysin, is a saddle stapled pamphlet described in its publisher's forward as "a book of words and pictures."[1] It is an example of Burroughs' use of the cut-up technique, with which he began experimenting in the fall of 1959.[2]
Burroughs took a dim view of newspapers and magazines generally, and Time magazine in particular. In an essay, "Ten Years and a Billion Dollars," he wrote:
Journalism is closer to the magical origins of writing than most fiction. That is, at least a few operators in this area—people like the late Hearst and Henry Luce [publisher of Time]—quite clearly and consciously saw journalism as a magical operation designed to bring about certain effects. And the technology is the technology of magic; in the case of newspapers and magazines, mostly black magic ... You can see how easy it is, if you own a newspaper, to start slipping in non-existent events; this has been and is being done all the time—by Time especially, in fact. Starting with being a week ahead, they literally write the news before it happens; which is why they print so many false statements that they have to retrct. And so you get a retraction from them—how many people read the retraction compared to the number who have read the falsified story?[3]
In 1965, Burroughs put together his own rendition of Time, its cover a collage of the magazine's November 30, 1962 cover, and an unidentified painting with Burroughs's name across its top. A few of the pages, as well as a color rendition of the cover, appear in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) catalog of their exhibit, Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts."[4]
The LACMA catalog describes Burroughs's Time as
twenty-six pages of typescripts comprised of cut-up texts and various photographs serving as news items. One of the pages is from an article on Red China from Time of September 13, 1963, and is collaged with a columnal typescript and an irrelevant illustration from the "Modern Living" section of the magazine. A full-page advertisement for Johns-Manville proucts is casually inserted amid all these texts; its title: "Filtering."[4]
At 28 cm,[5] the page size more or less reproduces that of Time. The saddle staples are in the middle, between #3 and #4 of the four Brion Gysin illustrations."[6] Some of the text is in columns, while other parts are full width; portions are in full width stanzas.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Burroughs, William (1965). Time (PDF). 4 drawings by Brion Gysin. NYC: "C" Press. OCLC 71213 – via Reality Studio.
- ^ Morgan, Ted (1988). Literary Outlaw: the Life and Times of William S. Burroughs. New York: Henry Holt and Company. pp. 321 ff. ISBN 0805009019. OCLC 17776286. Retrieved 7 December 2024 – via Open Library.
- ^ Burroughs, William S. (November 4, 2013) [First published 1985]. The Adding Machine: Selected Essays. New York: Grove Atlantic. p. 60. ISBN 0802192971. OCLC 13762205. Retrieved 8 December 2024 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b Sobieszek, Robert A. (1996). Ports of Entry: William S. Burroughs and the Arts. Illustrations and afterword by William S. Burroughs. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art. pp. 36–37. ISBN 0500974357. OCLC 35040735.
- ^ "Time, by William Burroughs. With 4 drawings by Brion Gysin". HathiTrust Digital Library. HathiTrust. Retrieved 8 December 2024.
- ^ Burroughs, William (1965). Time (PDF). 4 drawings by Brion Gysin. NYC: "C" Press. OCLC 71213 – via Monoskop.
External link
[edit]- Reality Studio, a Web site devoted to Burroughs' work Photographic reproduction of the pages of Time
Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 06:21, 14 January 2012 (UTC) Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 02:03, 15 January 2012 (UTC)