A Conversation with W.S. Burroughs by V. ValeMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Back in V. Vale’s RE/Search Newsletter #127, June-July 2014, V. Value mentioned "Burroughs had even studied Egyptian grammar and hieroglyphs" and in the more recent newsletter mention of this limited run chapbook expounded that William S. Burroughs did this and recommended it and Chinese grammar for mental exercise. My recent reading of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain caused me to encounter the same topic where neuroscience shows us the Chinese use different neural pathways for language. This and much more on Burroughs' reading life and recommendations I hoped top find here. However, the grammar topic did not make it to printing and much of what is here on books is discursive, brief, and with misspellings of author names, etc. At the time, Vale was researching for an as-yet-unpublished The Books in my Life, but at the time Bill has other priorities that week around a methadone clinic and dinner guests. Some of that life in transcript and photographs make it here, making for an intimate if superficial exploration of the writer's life in late 1988.
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