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Fascinating different take on Burroughs, the "lost" graphic novel of Ah Pook is Here, and the synchronicity within, Really enjoyed it, and although I'm a Burroughs completist, I think could definitely be interesting for the more casual Burroughs fan as well, Ordering the Lost Art of Ah Pook soon, Observed While Falling is not a great book, Its not even a good book, it's decent, For the most part I feel Malcolm McNeill is riding the coat tails of Burroughs while simultaneously sneaking in and trying to force an autobiography of himself, portraying himself as a starving artist of the 's.
It comes off as rather selfaggrandizing to me, Also, the problem is that McNeill is not a good writer he's decent at some parts and comes off dull and boring in many parts though he might be a good illustrator, I'm not sure.
. . The examples seem to show that he IS indeed pretty damn good at illustrating, . . In any case, he repeatedly describes putting down Burroughs sexual advances probably the only somewhat interesting parts of the book, . . My response to this is, . ITS FUCKIN BURROUGHS! YOU BLOW THE DUDE IF HE WANTS YOU TOO! Shit, if he had two dicks, you should have blown one of them while giving a handy jay to the other! The dude is a legend.
. . I would totally have blown Burroughs, just so I could have told an awesome drugged out, homoerotic story!, . Maybe if McNeill's banged Burrough's, instead of being a fag about it, the book would not have been so boring and dull, . . Just imagaine "Burrough's dick turned into a Emerald Tree Boa right before my drug induced eyes!!" See how much cooler that is, . . Clearly, McNeill is a total square and a closet homosexual, . . The book leaves you wanting to hear more about Burroughs than McNeill's boring, cliche problems with the law and ladies typical of hippy stories at this time, Does have some good quotes from time to time, mostly by Burroughs, . . Also there are some major grammar mistakes, which I usually bypass, But these are bad, for example this one,

"The "We" of his letter to me back then was now very apparent, " I don't have a fuckin' clue what this means, . . This is just bad grammar, . . Oh, wait, now I get it after rereadingtimes, . . whatever

and this one is another example of shit grammar,

"I would one of the first ones on it, "

I would expect better if I was going to drop,for this book . . This is just sloppy work, . Luckily I would never pay this much for anything and just drunkenly annoy librarians via email atam until they unwillingly order books for me,

Surprisingly the chapter entitled "Here" was pretty fascinating and has left me curious about Mayan civilization, He starts going off on paranoid rants aboutand the collapse of society, . . This is all necessary and good stuff I can appreciate, . . He then compares the circular rather than linear idea of history and how the current present time is a repeat of the past, . . Ranging from politics to technology, . . Examples Telegraph to internet Really well written chapter


Oh, here are some cool quotes, . .

"Bill was no fan of book reviewers, . . He compared them to the Egyptian 'Assayers of Scribe,' the court historians who enforced the interests of their employers and forestalled opposition, They were the arbiters of taste, the controllers of information, the ultimate censors, It was they who determined what would be read and who would read it, Bill wanted to 'put a curse on all of them, '"

"GPS, CCTV surveillancehours a day, more and more cops, more and more security, relentless word/image 'programming' and 'monitoring' through media, results in an increasing behavioral conformity, political correctness, and identical, cultural, religious mindset.
. . But such a level of control in the long run produces a dull, homogenous, nonresistant human product, "

"Hollywood indoctrinated audience, "



Fantastic insight on Burroughs as an individual, for those of you concerned, One of the more humane portraits of Burroughs around, actually, At times feels like your sitting right there with Bill particularily enjoyed the restaurant scene

and Bill's cigarette routine, How a man can smoke so much is beyond me!

But the subject of the book, the everinprogress Ah Pook is Here is really quite something, I have not read Ah Pook the text is available and am glad that I will go into it with the insights here gained,

The final essays that wrap the book up are beautifully written, pertinent, enlightening really eye opening stuff, They are concerned with predestination, synchronicity, reincarnation, . .

Highly recomended. This book was so good, it was so insightful, It felt like two glorious books in one, First a very humorous and personal accounting of McNeill's struggles as an artist, and his relationship with Burroughs, The depth of their friendship, Burrough's esteem for McNeill is illustrated in the fact that he becomes Godfather to Malcolm's son,
The second part of the book delves more into theory and explanation for Ah Pook, for coincidence for relativity, much headier stuff, but some great ideas and intrigues, Got me thinking I must say, One of the focus's is the coincidences between McNeill and Catherwood, that stuff was goose pimply eerie,
Now I Have finished this book I am excited to buy and look through Malcolm McNeill's companion book to this, . . The Lost Art of Ah Pook is Here, Observed While Falling is an account of the personal and creative interaction that defined the collaboration between the writer William S, Burroughs and the artist Malcolm McNeill on the graphic novel Ah Pook is Here, The memoir chronicles the events that surrounded it, the reasons it was abandoned and the unusual circumstances that brought it back to life, McNeill describes his growing friendship with Burroughs and how their personal relationship affected their creative partnership, The book is written with insight and humor, and is liberally sprinkled with the kind of outr anecdotes one would expect working with a writer as original and eccentric as Burroughs.
It confirms Burroughs' and McNeill's prescience, the place of Ah Pook in relation to the contemporary graphic novel, and its anticipation of the events surrounding, The book offers new insights into Burroughs' working methods as well as how the two explored the possibilities of words and images working together to form the ambitious literary hybrid that they didn't know, at the time, was a harbinger of thest century "graphic novel.
" McNeill expounds on the lessons of that experience to bring Ah Pook into present time, In light of current events, Ah Pook is unquestionably Here now,

Observed While Falling presents a unique view of the creative process that will be of interest to artists, writers and general readers alike, A perspective evoked by a literary experiment that has endured for forty years and still continues to "happen, ".