Ghost of Chance

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Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark the work of the man who Norman Mailer once called, the only American writer possessed by genius While tripping through the author s trademark concerns drugs, paranoia, and lemurs, this short novel tells an important story about environmental devastation in a way that only Burroughs can.Born in 1914, William S Burroughs is the author of Junky, Naked Lunch and The Soft Machine and many other contemporary classics A major figure of 20th century American literature, Burroughs died in 1997. Free Download Ghost of Chance Author William S. Burroughs For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive William S Burroughs, Ghost of ChanceLast summer at a street fair in Portland, Oregon one of the booths displayed a banner Stop Breeding I picked up one of their postcards, which read Not having kids may be the best thing you can do for the environment Reading Ghost of Chance, author William S Burroughs is undoubtedly of similar mind He alerts readers that on the island of Madagascar the human population is growing o Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive Wil... Ghost of Chance is a scathing lambastic indictment of the madness of mankind and a dire warning that we are all heading towards our own destruction With this in mind, i want you all to know that I m giving this 5 stars because of the importance of Burroughs message in this book If I were to rate it purely on narrative structure, I would probably only give it 3 stars but it s really really important for people to read this.Everyone is familiar with Burroughs acidic sardonic sense of humour an Ghost of Chance is a scathing lambastic indictment of the madness of mankind and a dire warning that we are all heading towards our own destruction With this in mind, i want you all to know that I m giving this 5 stars because of the importance of Burroughs message in this book If I were to rate it purely on narrative structure, I would probably only give it 3 stars but it s really really important for people to read this.Everyone is familiar with Burroughs acidic sardonic sense of humour and hard boiled prose While there are elements of that in Ghost of Chance as well, this isof an essay on ecological destruction at the hands of mankind which Burroughs and Brian Gyson call an ugly animal After reading this book...7 10 ,, , , ,, , 7 10 ,, , , ,, ,,, , , , , , ,, ,last book of burroughs, at first it was a bit too much for me but in the end it was challenging enough and brought food for thoughtI was somewhat reluctant to read yet another Burroughs bk given that I ve already read so many that there re so many other writers out there to read. BUT, it was worth it Burroughs incisive, acerbic imagination held my attn onceThe bk s plentifully interspersed w black white repros of paintings wch I reckon must be by Burroughs since they re not credited otherwise These are mostly busy energy patterns, semi abstract expressionist, probablythan a little influenced I was somewhat reluctant to read yet another Burroughs bk given that I ve already read so many that there re so many other writers out there to read. BUT, it was worth it Burroughs incisive, acerbic imagination held my attn onceThe bk s plentifully interspersed w black white repros of paintings wch I reckon must be by Burroughs since they re not credited otherwise These are mostly busy energy patterns, semi abstract expressionist, pr...Nel suoCritica della democrazia occidentale , l antropologo anarchico David Graeber ricorda che le comunit dei pirati atlantici nel XVIII secolo furono per certi versi una formulazione precoce di quelle che oggi ci piace definire, a volte solo formalmente, come democrazie occidentali Era lo spazio perfetto per un esperimento interculturale Di fatto, non c era a quel tempo in tutto l Atlantico un terreno pi adatto per impiantare nuove istituzioni democratiche ed el uthera 2012, p 81 Nel suoCritica della democrazia occidentale , l antropologo anarchico David Graeber ricorda che le comunit dei pirati atlantici nel XVIII secolo furono per certi versi una formulazione precoce di quelle che oggi ci piace definire, a volte solo formalmente, come democrazie occidentali Era lo spazio perfetto per un esperimento interculturale Di fatto, non c era a quel tempo in tutto l Atlantico un terreno pi adatto per impiantare nuove istituzioni democratiche ed el uthera 2012, p 81 Non sorprende quindi che un libertario autorevole e consapevole come William Burroughs si sia ispirato alla vicenda, peraltro storica e accuratamente ricostruita nella nota biografica conclusiva, del pirata filosofo Mission, fondatore in Mad...Interesting but undeveloped morality tale of Swiftian nastiness from literary outlaw Burroughs, like a tasty but thin slice of his regular naked lunch.Inspired by a French frigate captain turned pirate who founded a utopian society named Libertatia in Madagascar,around 1700, many of the writer s typical obsessions get a brief airing, supplemented with some odd and largely didactic footnotes A curse leads to diseases both destructive and darkly comic, humanity suffers the vengeance it deserves Interesting but undeveloped morality tale of Swiftian nastiness from literary outlaw Burroughs, like a tasty but thin slice of his regular naked lunch.Inspired by a French frigate captain turned pirate who founded a utopian society named Libertatia in Madagascar,around 1700, many of the writer s typical obsessions get a brief airing, supplemented with some odd and largely didactic footnotes A curse leads to diseases both destructive and dark...This was the first Burroughs I read, and I loved it It s a short novella about a pirate captain and lemurs and Burroughs cranky, yet beautiful, musings on society There were passages that made me sigh they were so beautiful, and that surprised me because I didn t expect that kind of lyricism from Burroughs But there s a sublime grotesqueness to the latter passages that seemsin line with what I knew of him Altogether a brilliant, engaging novella that earned its five stars from me for This was the first Burroughs I read, and I loved it It s a short novella about a pirate captain and lemurs and Burroughs cranky, yet beautiful, musings on society There were passages that made me sigh they were so beautiful, and that surprised me because I didn t expect that kind of lyricism from Burroughs But there s a sublime grotesqueness to the latter passages that seemsin line with what I knew of him Alto...A really short read and a strange one It s actually a little bit of everything A little bit of environmental and ecology issues, a little bit of history with the story of Captain Mission and then the spread of disease by the dead Captain Mission I enjoyed the new diseases that he mentioned especially the Christ Sickness and the essay about Homo Sap that with his weapons, his insatiable greed, and ignorance so hideous it can never see its own face.It sof a poem in which Burroughs add A really short read and a strange one It s actually a little bit of everything A little bit of environmental and ecology issues, a little bit of history with the story of Captain Mission and then the spread of disease by the d...This is a story about a man named Mission who loves his little lemur and will go great lengths to protect him from the big bad world with big bad evil people who will destroy Cap s lemur and everything...

Ghost of Chance
  • English
  • 26 May 2017
  • Paperback
  • 58 pages
  • 1852424575
  • William S. Burroughs
  • Ghost of Chance