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JACK KEROUAC'S been dead a while now. When he died in October '69, the Beat Generation was long gone; it had grown up, or broken down. Allen Ginsberg had taken up tripping with Timothy Leary, and had made, with Leary, his journey to the East. William Burroughs, Harvard '36...
Terry Valenzuela wants to work his way up to War Lord of Mars. "When I was young, I read about Edgar Rice Burroughs' character, John Carter, and his power as War Lord of Mars. He used sorcery and swords. I am beginning my rise by using the saber," Valenzuela said...
Hubbard's teachings are full of schizoid paradoxes. On the one hand, he speaks of the good basic nature of With Love?" homo sapiens trying to enslave Thetans with "electronics." Thetans themselves are rather godlike beings, yet they are curiously prone to infantile pranks like stealing, "nipping," and "blanketing," Hubbard...
Burroughs, who knows more than the average layman about psychology and who studied medicine in Vienna for a while, reputedly attained Clear before becoming disenchanted. His views on Scientology are therefore particularly incisive: "The shoddy presentation, the reactionary opinions, the preposterous claims, the atrocious writing are so immediately repellent that...
The second half of the book is presented as Charles' posthumously published novel, called The New Satyricon. It is a fragmentary assault on modern society that surrealizes many of the events and cultural characteristics that Author Mitchell has previously related with a measure of reserved compassion. It stars a...