Back in No Time
Back in No Time The Brion Gysin Reader Edited by Jason Weiss Wesleyan University Press Middletown, Connecticut |
Wesleyan University Press, Middletown CT 06459
Introduction and notes copyright © 2001 by Jason Weiss. All writings by Brion Gysin are copyright by Brion Gysin and the Estate of Brion Gysin.
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Title page photo: Brion Gysin, Paris, 1976. Photo by Ira Cohen.
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ISBN for the paperback edition: 978-0-8195-6529-7
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gysin, Brion.
Back in no time : the Brion Gysin reader / edited by Jason Weiss.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
Discography: p.
ISBN 0-8195-6528-8 (alk. paper) —
ISBN 0-8195-6529-6 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Weiss, Jason, 1955– II. Title.
PS3557.Y8 A6 2001
818'.5409—dc212001026976
5 4 3 2
Cover art: Movies, Brion Gysin, 1961.
Contents
Recollections of a Lost Seascape 3
To Master—A Long Goodnight (excerpts) 16
Brion Gysin Let the Mice In 95
Unpublished Notes on Painting 117
Cut-Ups: A Project for Disastrous Success 125
The Naked Lunch Screenplay (excerpts) 190
Fire: Words by Day—Images by Night 240
Psacré Psilocybin and Magic Mushrooms 257
Nowhere Street (score by Steve Lacy) 267
Somebody Special (score by Steve Lacy) 272
Dreams (score by Steve Lacy) 275
Snapshots from the Family Album (excerpts) 282
An Encomium for Allen Ginsberg 287