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- adjective Of or pertaining to William S. Burroughs (1914–1997),
American novelist ,poet ,essayist andperformer , a primary figure of theBeat Generation .
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By revisiting certain stations in certain orders, and pausing to hide transits, it was possible to create a kind of Burroughsian audio cut-up, where you could develop a call-and-response feel through live editing.
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The tune is almost a Burroughsian cut-up of their previous singles and shows the evolution of the band to interesting effect.
LISTEN: The Strokes Debut New Single Theo Spielberg 2011
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The tune is almost a Burroughsian cut-up of their previous singles and shows the evolution of the band to interesting effect.
LISTEN: The Strokes Debut New Single Theo Spielberg 2011
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Similarly, Proust's Recherche is a fascinating post-Wellsian time-travel story; and Jonathan Littell's Kindly Ones a large-scale exercise in, or deconstruction of, Edgar Rice Burroughsian adventure.
MIND MELD: Books We Love That Everyone Else Hates (and Vice Versa) 2010
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I can read them, easily: The Braille Film, a Burroughsian cut-up text published decades ago in San Francisco by Nova Broadcast Press aka Yours Truly, and Death in Paris, published online in 2009 by RealityStudio, which I think of as stripped-down Chandler with value-added vulgarity.
Jan Herman: The Mind Sashays Jan Herman 2011
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I was also mislead by the marketing presentation of "science fiction"; this is a quasi fantasy/weird world/Burroughsian drug-induced fever dream, just about anything but SF.
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The tune is almost a Burroughsian cut-up of their previous singles and shows the evolution of the band to interesting effect.
LISTEN: The Strokes Debut New Single Theo Spielberg 2011
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I can read them, easily: The Braille Film, a Burroughsian cut-up text published decades ago in San Francisco by Nova Broadcast Press aka Yours Truly, and Death in Paris, published online in 2009 by RealityStudio, which I think of as stripped-down Chandler with value-added vulgarity.
Jan Herman: The Mind Sashays Jan Herman 2011
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But I am happy to report Tangier retains its allure without the Burroughsian menace.
Regina Weinreich: Sex and the City II: The Morocco Connection 2010
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Even though our actor here is no John Carter Burroughsian mythic hero full of muscles and sword swinging prowess, he ends up trying to do what he can in a different way.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Beyond Earth's Gates - Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore Blue Tyson 2008
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