Spoken Word snippets

William Burroughs is a headache to read. His prose is disjointed, random, unfocused, but it is also laden with some of the oddest, most descriptive verbiage I've had the pleasure to read. So you have to be schizophrenic to consider yourself a fan of the guy. I have found the perfect compromise, the spoken word audio recording. Burroughs was an enthusiastic narrator of his own work and recorded MANY spoken word projects with many collaborators-- Laurie Andrson, Byron Gyson, John Cage and others. Here is William Burroughs reading somebody ELSE's work, namely Poe. I uploaded a MP3 of Burroughs reading THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH onto sharbigfile.com. Here's the URL if you are interested, the file is somewhat large.

http://www.sharebigfile.com/file/12940/masque-of-the-red-death.mp3.html

Here, also, is one of my favorites, "AH POOK THE DESTROYER" done as an animation with Burroughs narrating.