HW: Assembled trivia -Reply

[M Holmes]

Yuri Gagarin writes:

> the spinrad novel agent of chaos contains an organisation call the
> brotherhood of assassins, not unlike the hashashin (i'm pretty sure its spelt
> with an 'n' and not an 'm'), who also keep cropping up in Burroughs novels
> (william not edgar). Burroughs also had an orgone accumulator (according
> to i can't remember which Kerouac novel). Agent of Chaos also contains a
> passage which compares the Ordered world of the Guardians (hegemonic
> controllers, those the brotherhood of a's are fighting against), cocooned by
> the (false) knowledge of there being no other lifeforms, to an egg, which
> begins to read a little like in the egg.

Someone here posted the original source of "In The Egg". I think they
said their wife had been reading some poetry...

Anyone want to own up?

> the spoken bit at the beginning of who's gonna... on independent days,
> "this is a very heavy microphone stand ... no queen could burnish (?
> memory fails) this" seems to be a piss-take of one frederick mercury and his
> mike thrusting antics (ahem).

"No Queen could banish this..."

I think it's just a brit thing. Calvery is pretty obviously out of his
gourd during this piece and it's the random-connection kinda link that
appears all over the place in his poetry - IMHO this is what makes it so
fascinating.

FoFP