Back in No Time. Brion Gysin

      

      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

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      Introduction and notes copyright © 2001 by Jason Weiss. All writings by Brion Gysin are copyright by Brion Gysin and the Estate of Brion Gysin.

      See the Permissions section on pages 353–54 for a complete list.

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      Title page photo: Brion Gysin, Paris, 1976. Photo by Ira Cohen.

      Printed in the United States of America

      Design and composition by Julie Allred, B. Williams & Associates

      ISBN for the paperback edition: 978-0-8195-6529-7

      Wesleyan University Press is a member of the Green Press Initiative.

      The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper.

      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

       Preface vii

       Introduction ix

       That Secret Look 1

       From a Lost Novel 3

       Recollections of a Lost Seascape 3

       Time and Brother Griphen 10

       To Master—A Long Goodnight (excerpts) 16

       Potiphar’s Wife 60

       Early Cut-Up Experiments 69

       First Cut-Ups 70

       Minutes to Go 73

       Cut Me Up * Brion Gysin 75

       Permutation Poems 79

       I Am That I Am 80

       Junk Is No Good Baby 88

       Kick That Habit Man 89

       No Poets Don’t Own Words 89

       I Don’t Work You Dig 93

       This Is Sam Francis 94

       Brion Gysin Let the Mice In 95

       The Poem of Poems 102

       Dreamachine 113

       Unpublished Notes on Painting 117

       The Pipes of Pan 122

       About the Cut-Ups 125

       Cut-Ups: A Project for Disastrous Success 125

       Cut-Ups Self-Explained 132

       Am I the One? 136

       Janicot 141

       The Process (excerpts) 144

       The Naked Lunch Screenplay (excerpts) 190

       A Quick Trip to Alamut 218

       Fire: Words by Day—Images by Night 240

       Psacré Psilocybin and Magic Mushrooms 257

       Not by Me 261

       Songs 266

       Nowhere Street (score by Steve Lacy) 267

       Somebody Special (score by Steve Lacy) 272

       Clementeena Soopastar 274

       Dreams (score by Steve Lacy) 275

       Gay Paree Bop 276

       Sham Pain 277

       Stop Smoking 278

       Hamri’s Hands 279

       Snapshots from the Family Album (excerpts) 282

       An Encomium for Allen Ginsberg 287