![]() ![]() It occurs to me that he may have been encouraging me to keep in active contact with the world, as I was rusticating at my parents' house after 8 months in mental hospital as result of hippie contretemps with law. arrived sequentially in the mail, some to Paterson, New Jersey. In any case he responded to my letters with chapters of Junky, I think begun as curious sketching but soon conceived on his part - to my thrilled surprise - as continuing workmanlike fragments of a book, narrative on a subject. By then Kerouac and I considered ourselves poet/writers in Destiny, and Bill was too diffident to make such extravagant theater of self. As time wore on & our fortunes altered - me to solitary bughouse for awhile, he to his own tragedies and travels - I became more bold in presuming on his shyness, as I intuited it, and encouraged him to write more prose. ![]() ![]() I had always respected him as elder & wiser than myself, and in first years' acquaintance was mazed that he treated me with respect at all. glossary INTRODUCTION Bill Burroughs and I had known each other since Xmas 1944, and at the beginning of the `50s were in deep. ![]()
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