{"id":3521,"date":"2010-01-29T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T06:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2010-01-29T22:36:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T06:36:02","slug":"william-s-burroughs-on-human-race-and-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/01\/29\/william-s-burroughs-on-human-race-and-space\/","title":{"rendered":"William S. Burroughs on Human Race and Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bg8KHB17kmE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Bg8KHB17kmE&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Someone named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Duffalo#p\/a\/u\/2\/vfmnxuMiNFU\"><em>Brian Duffy<\/em><\/a> at <em>Massachusetts College of Art and Design<\/em> made this peculiar animation featuring the voice of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/William_S._Burroughs\"><em>William S. Burroughs<\/em><\/a>.  He gets that face animation of Burroughs just absolutely perfect.  And that copy of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Naked_Lunch\"><em>Naked Lunch<\/em><\/a> is the exact copy I&#8217;m reading this very evening.  Who is this animator?\u00a0 He&#8217;s very good.<\/p>\n<p>You know, this is what&#8217;s so great about reading today, so far and beyond what any other time has allowed people to enjoy.\u00a0 It&#8217;s that you can read something like Naked Lunch and think &#8216;Whew!\u00a0 What a weird creature that Burroughs must have been!\u00a0 What a lunatic!\u00a0 Very sharp and very crazy.&#8217;\u00a0 And then you can go out across the Web and find all sorts of fantastic films that have him walking around in them.\u00a0 You can find some kid up in Massachusetts who reads this lunatic and gets so inspired that he makes an incredible film about some one little thing Burroughs said at some point in his long life.\u00a0 Amazing.\u00a0 It&#8217;s never been better to read than now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone named Brian Duffy at Massachusetts College of Art and Design made this peculiar animation featuring the voice of William S. Burroughs. He gets that face animation of Burroughs just absolutely perfect. And that copy of Naked Lunch is the exact copy I&#8217;m reading this very evening. Who is this animator?\u00a0 He&#8217;s very good. You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,78],"tags":[904,33,903],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-literature","tag-naked-lunch","tag-space","tag-william-s-burroughs"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3524,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}