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Tables of Contents for Word Virus
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Editor's Preface
xi
Ira Silverberg
``Punching a Hole in the Big Lie: The Achievement of William S. Burroughs''
xv
Ann Douglas
Editors' Note
xxxi
THE NAME IS BURROUGHS (1914--44)
``The Name Is Burroughs''
3
20
James Grauerholz
From The Adding Machine:
The Name Is Burroughs (excerpt) (1973)
15
8
Personal Magnetism (1929)
23
1
Twilight's Last Gleamings (with Kells Elvins) (1938)
24
6
And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (excerpt) (with Jack Kerouac) (1945)
30
7
A HARD-BOILED REPORTER (1945--53)
``A Hard-Boiled Reporter''
37
78
James Grauerholz
From Junky:
Prologue (1952)
47
3
Selections (1950--52)
50
22
From Queer:
Selections (1951--52)
72
14
Epilogue: Mexico City Return (excerpts) (1953)
86
4
Introduction (excerpts) (1985)
90
6
The Yage Letters:
Selections (1953)
96
13
Roosevelt After Inauguration (May 1953)
109
6
INTERZONE (1954--59)
``Interzone''
115
64
James Grauerholz
From Interzone (1988 anthology):
International Zone (1955)
121
7
Lee's Journals (excerpts) (1955)
128
3
Spare Ass Annie (1955)
131
2
Ginsberg Notes (excerpts) (1955)
133
2
WORD (excerpts) (1957--58)
135
14
From Naked Lunch (1955--59):
I Can Feel the Heat Closing In
149
7
The Black Meat
156
2
Hospital (excerpts)
158
3
The Market (excerpts)
161
2
Islam, Inc. (excerpts)
163
2
Ordinary Men and Women (excerpt: The Talking Asshole)
165
2
Atrophied Preface
167
9
Quick...
176
3
THE CUT-UPS (1960--67)
``The Cut-Ups''
179
68
James Grauerholz
From The Soft Machine (1957--60):
Dead on Arrival
184
3
Case of the Celluloid Kali
187
6
The Mayan Caper
193
6
Where You Belong
199
2
Uranian Willy
201
1
From The Ticket That Exploded (1957--61):
``see the action, B.J.?''
202
3
do you love me?
205
3
operation rewrite
208
2
call the old doctor twice?
210
8
the invisible generation
218
7
From Nova Express (1961--63):
Last Words
225
1
Prisoners, Come Out
226
1
Pry Yourself Loose and Listen
227
4
So Pack Your Ermines
231
1
Shift Coordinate Points
232
1
Coordinate Points
233
4
Short Count
237
2
Twilight's Last Gleaming
239
1
Pay Color
240
1
Pay Off the Marks?
241
2
Clom Fliday
243
4
INSPECTOR LEE: NOVA HEAT (1964--84)
``Inspector Lee: Nova Heat''
247
110
James Grauerholz
From The Burroughs File:
Ancient Face Gone Out (1963)
250
2
The Beginning Is Also the End (1963)
252
4
Who Is the Third That Walks Beside You (1964)
256
3
The Last Post Danger Ahead (1964)
259
2
Last Awning Flaps on the Pier (1964)
261
1
St. Louis Return (1965)
262
8
From The Third Mind (with Brion Gysin):
The Exterminator (1962--65)
270
2
The Future of the Novel (1964)
272
1
Notes on These Pages (1964)
273
2
Technical Deposition of the Virus Power (1965)
275
5
In Present Time (1965)
280
9
From The Job:
The American Non-Dream (1969)
289
4
Institute of Advanced Sexual Studies: Academy Bulletin No. 18 (1969)
293
1
Electronic Revolution (1970--71)
294
19
Control (1970)
313
7
From The Adding Machine:
It Is Necessary to Travel...(1969)
320
1
Remembering Jack Kerouac (1969)
320
6
From The Burroughs File:
The Bay of Pigs (1972)
326
7
From Roosevelt After Inauguration and Other Atrocities:
When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President? (1975)
333
1
Roosevelt After Inauguration: A New Introduction (1975)
334
2
From The Adding Machine:
A Word to the Wise Guy (1975)
336
3
The Limits of Control (1975)
339
3
Les Voleurs (1976)
342
2
Immortality (1976)
344
8
The Johnson Family (excerpts) (1977)
352
5
QUEER UTOPIA (1968--73)
``Queer Utopia''
357
46
James Grauerholz
From The Wild Boys (1968--69):
And Bury the Bread Deep in a Sty
363
3
The Penny Arcade Peep Show
366
6
``Mother and I Would Like to Know''
372
4
The Wild Boys Smile
376
7
From Exterminator!:
``Exterminator!'' (1966)
383
3
The Discipline of DE (1970)
386
6
``What Washington? What Orders?'' (1972)
392
2
From Here to Eternity (1972)
394
2
Seeing Red (1972)
396
1
The ``Priest'' They Called Him (1967)
397
2
Cold Lost Marbles (1972)
399
4
THE RED NIGHT TRILOGY (1973--87)
``The Red Night Trilogy''
403
98
James Grauerholz
From Cities of the Red Night (1974--80):
Fore!
414
2
Invocation
416
1
Politics Here Is Death
417
4
Harbor Point
421
2
The Private Asshole
423
4
Letter de Marque (excerpt)
427
3
Port Roger (excerpt)
430
2
Cities of the Red Night
432
4
We Are Here Because of You
436
2
Return to Port Roger
438
2
From The Place of Dead Roads (selections) (1977--83):
Shoot-Out in Boulder
440
4
``For three days Kim had camped on the mesa top...''
444
1
``Kim has never doubted the possibility of an afterlife...''
445
2
``Kim got off the stage at Cottonwood Junction''
447
3
``Look at this picture from Tom's collection...''
450
1
``Kim recruits a band of flamboyant and picturesque outlaws...''
451
2
``Killed in the Manhattan Shoot-Out...April 3, 1894...''
453
2
``William Seward Hall...''
455
1
``Kim sees his life as a legend...''
456
1
``Guy Graywood arrived from New York...''
456
2
``Kim spent three years in Paris...''
458
3
``The guide traces the area on the map...''
461
2
``So in what guise shall he return to the New World...''
463
4
``Kim is heading north for Boulder...''
467
2
From The Western lands (selections) (1982--86):
``The old writer lived in a boxcar by the river...''
469
4
``Joe the Dead lowered the rifle...''
473
2
``Neferti is eating breakfast...''
475
2
``The Door Dog is a limited artifact...''
477
2
``Consider the One God Universe...''
479
1
``The Road to the Western Lands...''
480
4
``Neferti is dropping his Ego, his Me...''
484
2
``June 6, 1985. Friday. I am in Iran someplace...''
486
2
``In present-day Egypt...''
488
1
``The Land of the Dead: a long street with trees...''
489
3
The Wishing Machine
492
2
``It was a hectic, portentous time in Paris, in 1959...''
494
7
LATE WORK (1984--97)
``Late Work''
501
25
James Grauerholz
From The Cat Inside (selections) (1982--85)
504
3
From My Education: A Book of Dreams (selections) (1986--94)
507
19
``Epilogue''
526
5
James Grauerholz
Selected Bibliography
531