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Amazing two comments, so excellent! Thank you so much. It was posted just 12 days ago and I'm so proud to have seen it. I'll be taking it very seriously.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno_Viking

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Fritsch did not know the man's name at the time of filming.[4][6][12] A man who appeared in the 2009 "Bodybuilding" broadcast of the German television show segment Raab in Gefahr[13] was taken to be Techno Viking in a YouTube upload.[14] In 2008, fans claimed MMA fighter Keith Jardine was Techno Viking.[15] The lawyer of the Techno Viking asserts that his client had never been a public figure and that he did not want to become one.[16]

The unnamed man's court case against Fritsch concerning infringement of personality rights opened in Berlin on 17 January 2013.[4][17][18] In June, a decision was reached for the plaintiff and Fritsch was ordered to pay the man €13,000 in damages, almost all he had made from YouTube ads and sales of Techno Viking merchandise, plus €10,000 in court costs, and to cease publication of his image.[12][19][20][21][22]
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https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2015/ ... no-viking/

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“You’re Techno Viking!” I gasped, scanning his rather slim frame and effeminate jumper. “No. There’s no way. What?”

“Yes. I am the one you call Techno Viking. My name is Gunther Ackerman and I want to tell you my story,” he replied, leaving us both gobsmacked on his pebble driveway.

“But you look so normal, and…am…normal!” I said in disbelief, now confirming his claim with that familiar frown.

“Jesus, you are him!”

Mr. Ackerman led us inside to his living area and began to tell his story.

“I never wanted to be famous. It was all a mistake. A terrible, drug induced mistake,” he started, now clipping a pink plant of some sort. “I hope you don’t mind me pruning while I talk. It helps me relax.”

Gunther explained he was working as a lumberjack at the time of the video, and had many colleagues that “loved to party”.

“We would buy an ounce of base speed between us every weekend and head to free parties around Germany. Man, the comedown off that shit was hell”.

He said he had been awake for four days straight before the historic footage was taken and that he had no idea he was being filmed by Fritsch.

“The fucking snake had the camera resting on his lap. If I had to have known at the time I would have crushed him like a flower,” he explained, caressing the plant he was holding, whispering to it. “Not you honey, I would never crush you. Mwah!”

“Some young fella was acting the maggot and pushed one of the girls, Jessica. He was off his chuck so I left him off with a warning and a good point. Pointing is always good when lads are off their faces. You can’t beat a good point”.

Explaining his dance moves he said: “I just got in the flow I guess. My adrenaline was rushing. I remember grinding my teeth for a good week after that festival. In bits I was; like Lego”.

Gunther said he left the lumberjack business in 2002, after being fired for misconduct.

“Yeah, I got angry at one of the lads and I punched a tree. But the tree fell on top of my supervisor and broke his leg. They don’t make speed like that any more,” he laughed.

The then 26-year-old began studying to be a biologist in Berlin and later secured a job as head researcher for the University he attended.

“It’s a long cry from chomping down bags of base speed, necking pills and maintaining order at dance festivals, but I love it, you know?”

Gunther then went into introducing his long-time partner Steven, showing us a picture from his mantelpiece.

“That’s Stevie plums there. Isn’t he a catch?” he asked, now pointing at us for a positive reply.

“Oh yes! Yes, he’s gorgeous. You’re a very lucky man,” I replied, scared shitless. “Does Steve know about your past as the Techno Viking?”

“Well, yes. Steve is the guy wearing the black vest in the video – the guy I threatened. That night we hooked up and had the best sex of our lives. We got married last year”.

Realising our earlier misjudgement, I apologised to Gunther about our initial shock when he first revealed himself to us.

“Oh, that’s okay. I’m a right nerd at the back of it all. I hope I didn’t bore you to tears here.”

“Not at all,” John replied, hinting at me to make moves home. “Thanks for having us”.

With that, Gunther drove us back to the city. This time we gave him our full attention, listening to every single syllable of his roadside plant lecture, obeying with nods and gestures, pretending to be interested in his stunning ability to bore people to death.
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wonkwonk2stonkstonk
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Lololol youre quoting the Waterford Whisperer? Ireland most famous laughs/satire?

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Must be American!


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1morgondag1
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Well most people are not Irish. The content of the "interview" should make any sensible person suspicious, but to confirm WW is satire, one has to click back to the front page and scroll down to the "disclaimer". But some other sites, ie a techno news site called 6 AM, that have no disclaimers and aren't otherwise satirical, have done rewrites of this and show up high in search results.

BTW came across this old thread b/c the TV video showed up on my YT and I vaguely remembered the story and searched on it.



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wonkwonk2stonkstonk
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Im not irish
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Even though this is hate-filler, it is related to other things brought up in this thread:

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smutnik9000
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I hope the real techno reich king beatsthe shit out of ackerman for postulating the legend was a homosexual.



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WheeBeasties
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2y ago
Yeah because mid 90s European street raves were full of straight homophobes



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BulkySpray8578
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Everyone except you butt pirates wished they were


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LateTadpole5433
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Ass munchers think everyone is gay because a whole world that wants to fuck them might be enough fill 1/10 of the gaping emptiness and meaninglessness that torments their soul daily.

“The thirst you can’t quench” is literally about the unrelenting hedonistic excess of homosexuals

LateTadpole5433
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Gays always try to poison society with their projected degeneracy



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Yup


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Yo what in the hell? All of you are upvoting these hateful homophobic responses? What the fuck is wrong with all of you? Meet a gay person. Ask them about their mother, and the first time they fell in love. Learn how to be human.



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I did once.

Me: - "Hi, <friend's name>, what's the name of your mother? ".

Friend: - "I'm gay"

futilinutil
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If you observe closely, Techno Viking has a curved/angled nasal bone (outwards) as Gunther Ackerman (viewed from the profile perspective) has a straight nasal bone. What gives?

xlerate
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I've arrived here and It's 4am here in NY now. I have to know if it's Gunther or not? The Ridge of the nose seems to confirm it cannot be the same person.

I've remember this from the early internet days of slow dsl.

Please advise.

Who is the real Techno Viking? He commands masculine energy over his subject while balancing the energy of feminine rhythm then returns back masculine energy to lead the followers onward through Berlin.

This is a full circle of harmonious energies.


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When I read he got angry at a coworker, punched a tree and it fell on his supervisor, I knew this was a parody 'true revealing' story. C'mon guys... a botanist would never punch a tree instead of another dude.

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The ears are different as well as the nose. I’d like to think Techno Viking lives in the country w his woman and children. Away from all the mess and chaos of the world.
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DreisterDino
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So, Frisch is losing in court, has to pay a sum to the person involved, and is forbidden from spreading this or other videos.

And what's his reaction?

Frisch himself can't let go of the case. He starts a crowdfunding campaign and makes a documentary about the Techno-Viking. He also creates an archive for the meme. Despite the court ruling, the meme can't be stopped anymore.

I have a lot of words for that, but I'll spare them. But that's just malicious. And at the same time, it perfectly shows the self-image and complete ignorance with which such people always act on the internet, and what group dynamics arise at the expense of others. If the mob decides that for some reason it's just or even just funny to drag a person further and further into the public eye, then they just do it. Even if a court (and the person concerned themselves, but who cares about that anyway) has clearly spoken out against it.

You see it all the time, and I would call all the people who participate in it malicious. While they themselves either don't even realize what they're actually doing or even describe such an online witch hunt as a good deed and a fight for justice (I won't give any examples, I'm sure everyone has some example in mind).

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Even if it was before the smartphone/social media era - taking pictures of people without asking (because they have a striking appearance, are doing something "silly" just for fun, or are in an unsightly predicament) has, in my opinion, become one of the biggest bad habits of the 21st century.


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Even if a court (and the person concerned themselves, but who cares anyway) has clearly spoken out against it.

What many people, including you, forget is that the real possibilities also end somewhere.

The influence of German laws also ends somewhere, often even in Germany. See the lawsuit against the government to do more for climate protection or how you declare a company insolvent and 3 months later continue in the same way under a different name & owner.

Just as laws can change from one day to the next.
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Burroughs had a longstanding preoccupation with magic and the occult, dating from his earliest childhood, and was insistent throughout his life that we live in a "magical universe".[77] As he himself explained:

In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of science is that the will cannot possibly affect external forces, and I think that's just ridiculous. It's as bad as the church. My viewpoint is the exact contrary of the scientific viewpoint. I believe that if you run into somebody in the street it's for a reason. Among primitive people they say that if someone was bitten by a snake he was murdered. I believe that.[78]

Or, speaking in the 1970s:

Since the word "magic" tends to cause confused thinking, I would like to say exactly what I mean by "magic" and the magical interpretation of so-called reality. The underlying assumption of magic is the assertion of "will" as the primary moving force in this universe – the deep conviction that nothing happens unless somebody or some being wills it to happen. To me this has always seemed self evident ... From the viewpoint of magic, no death, no illness, no misfortune, accident, war or riot is accidental. There are no accidents in the world of magic.[79]

His was not an idle interest: Burroughs practiced magic in his everyday life, seeking out mystical visions through practices like scrying,[80][81][49] taking measures to protect himself from possession,[82][83][36][37] and attempting to lay curses on those who had crossed him.[54][55][84] Burroughs spoke openly about his magical practices, and his engagement with the occult is attested by a number of interviews,[m][n][86] as well as personal accounts from those who knew him.[54][55][36]

Biographer Ted Morgan has argued: "As the single most important thing about Graham Greene was his viewpoint as a lapsed Catholic, the single most important thing about Burroughs was his belief in the magical universe. The same impulse that led him to put out curses was, as he saw it, the source of his writing ... To Burroughs behind everyday reality there was the reality of the spirit world, of psychic visitations, of curses, of possession and phantom beings."[9][87]

Burroughs insisted that his writing itself had a magical purpose.[o][p][q][r][92] This was particularly true when it came to his use of the cut-up technique. Burroughs was adamant that the technique had a magical function, stating "the cut ups are not for artistic purposes".[93] Burroughs used his cut-ups for "political warfare, scientific research, personal therapy, magical divination, and conjuration"[93] – the essential idea being that the cut-ups allowed the user to "break down the barriers that surround consciousness".[94] As Burroughs himself stated:

I would say that my most interesting experience with the earlier techniques was the realization that when you make cut-ups you do not get simply random juxtapositions of words, that they do mean something, and often that these meanings refer to some future event. I've made many cut-ups and then later recognized that the cut-up referred to something that I read later in a newspaper or a book, or something that happened ... Perhaps events are pre-written and pre-recorded and when you cut word lines the future leaks out.[94]

In the final decade of his life, Burroughs became heavily involved in the chaos magic movement. Burroughs's magical techniques – the cut-up, playback, etc. – had been incorporated into chaos magic by such practitioners as Phil Hine,[95][96][97] Dave Lee[98] and Genesis P-Orridge.[99][54] P-Orridge in particular had known and studied under Burroughs and Brion Gysin for over a decade.[54] This led to Burroughs contributing material to the book Between Spaces: Selected Rituals & Essays From The Archives Of Templum Nigri Solis[100] Through this connection, Burroughs came to personally know many of the leading lights of the chaos magic movement, including Hine, Lee, Peter J. Carroll, Ian Read and Ingrid Fischer, as well as Douglas Grant, head of the North American section of chaos magic group the Illuminates of Thanateros (IOT).[77][101] Burroughs's involvement with the movement further deepened, as he contributed artwork and other material to chaos magic books,[102] addressed an IOT gathering in Austria,[103] and was eventually fully initiated into the Illuminates of Thanateros.[s][104][77] As Burroughs's close friend James Grauerholz states: "William was very serious about his studies in, and initiation into the IOT ... Our longtime friend, Douglas Grant, was a prime mover."[101]
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Fingers_Talk

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sections of Naked Lunch, Soft Machine, and Ticket that Exploded re-arranged into a new narrative. Often erroneously called a compilation because of this.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wild_Boys_(novel)

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The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead is a novel by William S. Burroughs. It was first published in 1971 by Grove Press. It depicts a homosexual youth movement whose objective is the downfall of western civilization, set in an apocalyptic late twentieth century.

In 1972, Burroughs wrote a screenplay based on the novel, with the intent of having it produced as a low-budget hardcore p*rnographic film, and entered into negotiations with g*y p*rn producer Fred Halsted before abandoning the idea at the end of 1972.[1]

Russell Mulcahy wanted to direct a film adaptation, and talked to Duran Duran about writing the soundtrack, but the project never came to fruition.[2] Nonetheless, the novel inspired the Duran Duran song "The Wild Boys".[2]

The clothes, hair, and makeup of David Bowie's character Ziggy Stardust were based on the description of the Wild Boys in the book. According to Bowie, "it was a cross between that and Clockwork Orange that really started to put together the shape and the look of what Ziggy and the Spiders were going to become. They were both powerful pieces of work, especially the marauding boy gangs of Burroughs's Wild Boys with their bowie knives. I got straight on to that. I read everything into everything. Everything had to be infinitely symbolic."[3]
Post-punk band The Soft Boys took their name from a combination The Wild Boys and The Soft Machine.[4]
Former Joy Division front-man Ian Curtis cited it as one of his favourite books.[5]
Johnny, the protagonist of Patti Smith's Horses, is a reference to the homoerotic protagonist of the novel.
Fraser, the protagonist of Luca Guadagnino's We Are Who We Are, reads this novel in the first episode.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophilia





https://www.vice.com/en/article/watch-s ... lown-cult/







I don't like people calling themselves things like "b*tch".



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liar_paradox

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Looking at the people who make these things, they present themselves as sick looking, oily, disheveled, all the signs of what would have been considered unwell and mentally not quite right, because people for the most part don't present themselves like this or look like this when they show themselves to others.

If someone doesn't love their image, their natural image, like I do, then there is likely something "wrong" with them and their wiring. The evil of the culture of the people, perhaps attributed to the Bible, is self deprecating, it tells one they should not be born finding comfort in their natural appearance.





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@beatnikrictus1321
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spine out of place from a mellow black chick? What is she depressed about? Working on my empathy here. What, a man she got the hots for says your cat not tight enuff for me to care? Aw, cupcake, tough break. Its just not meant to be. Lesson learned. Move on, catch the next bus. Some fool may not mind that ride. Or mine the ride. Depends on what side your on.
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Creepy.

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@elizabethharris8907
9 years ago
I have disliked this because its rendition of the lyrics is quite inaccurate, which is simply not good enough.

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@eduardocorrochio208
9 years ago
And the editing is horrible. The words come up AFTER he sings them.
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Selected for every detail.





Haha they suck. This is something other than a musical performance.



Wow, look at how well suited this is:





I liked the cinematography in this neo-noir.



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@alexplorer
12 days ago
It's early still, but I think the happiest moment of today for me was discovering that Peter Weller really is Buckaroo Banzai. I mean, I knew about the Ph.D. and teaching courses, but I had never actually seen him lecture. I had always assumed he was as restrained in front of students as his performances were on film. Nope. Fantastic! This is inspirational on so many levels. Looking forward to more consciousness-raising content in his travels across the dimensions. Subscribed!

@erwinquiachon8054
13 days ago
Is this channel run by Dr. Weller? He should have his own YouTube channel. You should have been posting 10 years ago!

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@drwellerworld
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Yes it is, real deal Dr Weller here

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@erwinquiachon8054
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@drwellerworld This is the type of content YouTube needs. The posts that you've started with are very compelling. Hopefully you'll post a bunch of full lectures. I can't be the only one who could listen to you talk for hours about history, cinema, and art in general.
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https://m.youtube.com/@drwellerworld

One of my favorite films of his, which I relate to a lot:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Unknown_Origin



https://www.instagram.com/drpeterweller/#

He has just started this magnificent campaign, I really hope he is able to produce so much. This is what YouTube should be for, not News trash and repetition, but people being so expressive and teaching others about their thoughts from their hearts.



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@drummadave
5 years ago
His smile is like a 3rd stick
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Having something better to do has wasted so much of our time. This is why having nothing better to do is so crucial if this horrific world is meant to become better. Get the whip and turn it against those Time Wielding Whackers:



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@ledgekindred
1 year ago
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is something that cannot, and should not, ever be attempted to recreate. It's one of those bizarre mutations that came out of mid-80s Hollywood despite the machinations of mid-80s Hollywood. I love it and I never want it to change.

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@onemancinema4642
1 year ago
Well said. A beautiful monster that gets better and better.

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@ζεπσ
1 year ago
Amen, brethren!

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@nickclarkart
6 months ago
I think they should jump right into making a third film, pretend that the events of the second film, the world crime league happened. we just never got to see the movie.
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My mother used to lie to me every single time that she went on a trip, that she was bringing me back Buckaroo Banzai toys that didn't exist.

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There was a clique who resented the hell out of my activities with Burroughs. They formed the opinion I was leading him on, which says little for their opinion of William. They kept pointing out that I was not gay, as if that were some kind of betrayal. But… well these are long forgotten struggles and of little import now. Besides that was in another world and the boys are dead…
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https://www.jonathantannerthomas.com/es ... magination

http://www.thestacksreader.com/cronenbe ... burroughs/

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It helped that Burroughs told Cronenberg he was the best man for the job. “It was like getting my blessing from the pope, my benediction,” Cronenberg says. “[But] I didn’t know what I was going to do with it. I knew that you couldn’t do the book, for all the obvious reasons. So I had a lot of conversations with Burroughs. I said, ‘I’m not gay, so I don’t know what the sexuality in this movie is going to be like. It’s something that’s got to be dealt with in the movie, but I don’t know how it’s going to come out. Chances are, it’s going to be a lot different from yours.’”
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Lee becomes more more disoriented, taking strange drugs like “the black meat of the aquatic Brazilian centipede” and Mugwump semen (though in the movie the Mugwumps’ penises hang off their foreheads like obscene coxcombs, a nice Cronenbergian touch). Presumably trying to bury his sorrows—among them, the murder of his wife, Joan—he discovers that he can’t. Lee gets involved with Tom and Joan Frost, a couple who bear some resemblance to the writers Paul and Jane Bowles, friends of Burroughs in the Tangier years—only the Jane Bowles character is also played by Judy Davis. “Did you come to Interzone for the boys?” she asks him.

By this time, the film is a thorough mixture of Burroughs and Cronenberg. In fact, to say it’s Burroughs’s Naked Lunch is a bit of a misnomer; the credit should probably read “Cronenburroughs.” “I really feel we got into the telepod together,” the director says happily. (He’s referring to the machine that combines Jeff Goldblum with a fly to make the Brundlefly, in The Fly.) The irony is that Cronenberg, whose highly controlled movies are about the twin dangers of control and losing control, has taken an out-of-control novel and disciplined it, while at the same time unleashing the feelings the novel keeps rigidly in check. Whether it betrays or lives up to Burroughs’s novel will be debated, but it is certainly an attempt Burroughs would recognize: “I live with the constant threat of possession and a constant need to escape from possession, from Control,” he has said. “The death of Joan brought me in contact with the invader, the Ugly Spirit, and maneuvered me into a lifelong struggle, in which I have had no choice but to write my way out.”
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Re: Takhisis
It is so well matched to the themes in this thread: