Talk:The Ticket That Exploded

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My first article. Feel free to elaborate or correct any errors.

Dr Ellipso 12:26, 23 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Electronic Revolution link[edit]

Why is there an External Link to the essay "Electronic Revolution" here? I don't see any connection to The Ticket That Exploded. If no connection can be made I'll move the link to the main William S. Burroughs article. If it happens to be part of the book, this needs to be noted. 23skidoo 13:22, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Never mind. I just discovered that Electronic Revolution actually has its own article, so I moved the link there. 23skidoo 13:29, 5 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:46, 12 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What is this book about?[edit]

Simply quoting from the book's introduction does no good at all. Is there a plot? Who is Agent Lee? Why is this work considered notable? I came to this page because "language is a virus" redirected me here, but there is no reference at all to that. What is cut-up method? I can't really stand the cult of personality built up around Burroughs and his writing but I understand that he has many fans so I'd ask someone who cares about his work to attempt to fix these problems. Xenomorph erotica (talk) 15:27, 1 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

To my recollection, there isn't an "introduction" to this book that would make useful quote material. The book is unusual in that the plot is largely left to the reader to determine, although there are obvious and strong themes of mind control and the idea of the influence of technology and language are explored in unusual ways. These things are already mentioned in the article in as much as can be mentioned without going into original research territory. Perhaps someone could add a bit about Agent Lee being a literary stand-in of sorts for Burroughs himself if one could find proper sources. The cut up technique is linked in the article. Just follow the link for a comprehensive article about this method. I agree that the "language is a virus" concept could be further explored. Maybe that is something that could be carefully added by someone with knowledge of good sources for such a thing. To be frank, though, with an impressionistic and subjective work such as this book, it would be very difficult to elaborate without coloring the article with one's own opinions. Most of your questions and confusion could be easily cleared up by taking a gander at this dense and baffling work of surrealism. It's got less to do with a cult of personality and more to do with the difficulty and subjectivity of the material. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.231.42.109 (talk) 07:25, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
There are a couple editions of the book in the Internet Archive. I searched both for "virus" and could not find the phrase "language is a virus." Does the quote actually come from this book, or is that a myth? 198.255.136.88 (talk) 00:34, 7 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]