William S. Burroughs - LAST WORDS OF HASSAN SABBAH 

"Play it all, play it all, play it all back / pay it all, pay it all, pay it all back" (2,38) Wonderful

I've been revisiting this text and this film for years and it never ceases to hypnotize and inspire me. Sublime Paranoia

I love William Burroughs.

Last night I dreamt that I was in a car with Burroughs while I was reading Naked Lunch. I stopped the car and Burroughs got out. I gave him the book and said ''Look after this would you Mr Burroughs?" He then said, "Wow, this is mine!" I then drove away waving. Wonderful dream.

Truly prophetic.

He wrote in a variety of styles, from conventional pros to totaly surealistic. This style leans towards the later. It is *cut up, where he cut up pages of newspapers, books, or his own writing, pasted them together randomly and then typed up the result. It was an old Dada/surealist style. He was doing it with tapes, too, as far back as the fifties, which was eventualy picked up (around the eighties or ninties) and became sampling. This guy was very far ahead of his time.

Vaguely terrifying. He sounds like an evil mirror-ghost lecturing you.

thank you for posting this.

Nice to see Brion Gysin and Bil Garver as well. ThX for posTing

Eternal text...Eternal William! He is somewhere in Western Lands and smiling after all :)

Perhaps, the greatest of William's audio pieces The Last Words of Hassam E. Sabbah. The footage is terrific, a gas. Has to be stolen from Harry Smith or Allen (Ginsberg) but as William always said, "the day the black blood of plagiarism entered my veins I became a free man. So,..."don't let them see us, don't let them know who we are, don't let that out, minutes to go, seconds to go, squeezing the air, minutes to goo, you have the wrong number." I know, he was my friend.

thank you

THX for This.

Of course it does! You can not be hypnotic and magical without saying anything, phonetic writing it's plain pleasure, magic it's a different thing. I suggest you to read the text of this poem and think about it, you'll find a pretty good answer to your question!

This is different than the Nova Express version. The Nova Experss version has at least one segment that is missing here (it goes something like: "premature? give us more time?" more time for what? for more lies? these words are not premature. these words may be too late)

this is where the phrase 'heavy metal' comes from btw. fun fact! Burroughs invented it.

The most important piece of writing after Yalta.

"don't tell them what we are doing - " 2024 Gaza

I rub out the word forever

Hassan Sabbah was the founder of Hashashin.

Nothing is real, everything is permitted

The last words of #coronavirus

I get the feeling that if Burroughs had been any more 'objective' with his critique of our western perspectives that His name would have long since been rubbed out forever. eg; the 'Hassan Sabbah Twist' is very troubling when trying to remain unbiased in perspective; like rethinking Marco Polo's supposed account of "The Old Man and the Mountain" as either a classic case of 'cultural projection' or part of some 'cultural engineering project' that doesn't quite set well within the western mind. ...not that "I" personally have any opinion on the matter that is...

1:38 Geddy Lee?

Who is Hassan Sabbah he's talking about? Is he talking about the inventor ? please if you know the answer post it..

Dont tell dem dat 🥸🥳😏😚🤪😜

The Banana Splits brought me here.

I love how everyone speaks of his writing talent without ever knowing that William S. Burroughs was CIA.

how the hell u know what his last words were, unless u have it recorded

chaka khan, chaka khan

wrong name / wrong number

Nothing's true,

for this you have sold your sons forever?

This is not profound at all. Its gibberish and nonsense to the point where affluent people think its profound but its nonsense with a robotic voice.