Jimmy Page and William Burroughs
(Source: skifflequeen)
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Beatniks were artists and writers who started a literature-based sociocultural movement in 1950s America. This Tumblr is all about them, their work, their inspirations, and those they inspired. I also include the evolution of faux beat culture into a 1950s pop trend as well as how the beatniks' influence continues today. I apologize for any reposts; it's difficult to remember what I have and have not shared.
This blog is run by a hip cat named Cat.
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Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict; those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war. — William S. Burroughs (via little-fighter)
(Source: neroblack)
Patti Smith and William Burroughs (Portrait and Photo by Robert Mapplethorpe)
Picture is scanned from With William Burroughs: A Report from the Bunker book by Victor Bockris
Alene Lee, a Beat Generation writer best known as Jack Kerouac’s girlfriend (and the inspiration for “Mardou Fox” in The Subterraneans), with William S. Burroughs at Allen Ginsberg’s apartment around 1953. Read her story “Sisters” here.
William Burroughs sitting up in back bedroom waiting for my company, we slept together & worked on Yage Letters and Queer manuscripts, Ace Books’d printed first paperback edition of Junky that Spring—“I come home from work (on N.Y. Telegram copyboy) 4:45 and we talk until one AM or later…am all hung up in a great psychic marriage with him for the month—(letter to Neal Cassady September 4, 1953.) Bill arrived from South America in August and we both stayed together in my apartment 5 till December, he left for Tangier, I hitched to Palm Beach, Xmas with his parents, then went on via Mexico to Bay Area San Francisco. 206 East 7th Street, Apt 26, Fall 1953.
(Source: froglegpercussion)
