Hotel Cecil

William S Burroughs, Ian Sommerville, & Peter Orlovsky, Tangier, June 1961.

Wm looking at me suspiciously, 'Who are you an agent for?' He traced back along word lines, cut-up technique of anti-brainwash language analysis, inquiring sources of my mental conditioning, perhaps liberal Professor Trilling, perhaps “a trust of giant insects from another Galaxy” conspiring to make Nova Conditions on our Planet, exterminate Homo Sap the Human animal so another life-form, virus invasion, move in on the turf, suchlike poetries on his mind. Timothy Leary visited from Harvard, we took small amounts of psilocybin, Bill shut himself inside his garden gate with a wave of his hand, allergic, paranoia season. — Ian Sommerville assisting sound collage electronics & stroboscope Alpha rhythm Dream Machine experiments with Bill B. and Brion Gysin then in Town” (photo & caption: Allen Ginsberg).