SEE UPDATE BELOW
My staff of thousands informs me that the Smithsonian Institute has posted scans of three notebooks by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin dating from 1963 to 1973, and 1977. It was described to me as “a motherlode” of writings and collages. And indeed it is. Have a look by clicking the images and/or the caption.
American flag over the empty field
From William Burroughs and Brion Gysin writings:
Black Book 1963-1964 (at the Smithsonian Institute)
23 VICTORY by J. Conrad 358-8
EN ROUTE
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
Look out the window. . .
fire by the track. . .
streams crusted with. .
sewage. to yesterday
and today I say my
polite vaya con dios
in the shadow of (Two Boys
UPDATE: Due to a copyright issue, the digital images of the notebooks are no longer available except on site at the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. I’m told that once the issue is resolved, the images will be re-posted online.
