Posted by Snoozy on June 3, 2003, at 21:10:36
In reply to Re: Burroughs and Tangier » Snoozy, posted by wendy b. on June 2, 2003, at 23:12:02
Thanks for setting me straight Wendy! With my memory, it's a good thing I'm not the star witness in a big trial. lol
Now, can you tell me if I'm remembering this correctly: Burroughs family was relatively well-to-do, but not from the Burroughs drug co (!) but some type of business machine? There's a phrase: "business machine"! I think I meant equipment. And did money have any role in the punishment/lack thereof he got in Mexico? It certainly wouldn't be unheard of.
Thanks!
> Burroughs's wife Joan was shot in 1951; he didn't go to Tangier until 1954, and that was to escape from the memories of a less-than-satisfactory relationship with Allen Ginsberg, to write, and to hang out where Paul Bowles had written his novels. He started out going to Rome, and evidently it was on a whim that he went to Tangier. So the biography makes no link between the death of his wife and his move to Tangier, although it does mention several times how devastated and lonely he was there, without her.
> (Perhaps one of the movie-versions of this story implies some connection between the two events, or suggests that he was 'on the lam,' but that seems unlikely..)
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> Wendy
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> > This was quite some time ago that I saw a biography about him, but I recall that he was "on the lam" in Mexico, possibly Tangiers, after the "William Tell" incident. I'll try to find out if I'm remembering correctly.
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> > > > >the death in 1951 of his wife, killed by an inebriated Burroughs while shooting at a glass perched atop her head.
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