HW: More (literary) Bandits Talk

[William Duffy]

Stephen Lindsey wrote:
>
> Wow ! Synchronicity cool 8-)
>
> I'd just been meaning to post on another HW literary connection I'd found, and
> indeed it has a Burroughs connection.....
>
> In 'On The Road' by Jack Kerouac  (legendary book, cornerstone of hte 'Beat'
> generation) I've just found a reference to an 'Orgone Accumulator' this
> is in the part where J.K. and Neial Cassady go down to visit William
> Burroughs at his ranch in Texas (they are all mentioned under pseodonyms in the
> book). There is a description of the device that Mr Burroughs has in his yard,
> together with a note from Mr Burroughs that he usually feels a little, well
> randy I suppose, after using it.  SO there you go (I can dig out the exact quote
> from the book at home). I have to wonder if this is where Bob Calvert got the
> idea for the song though.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve L.
>
> > Jon Jarrett wrote:
> > >
> > > x       Max Wilcox talking about `The Naked Lunch' being used by Calvert
> > > forces me to remind everyone that the same book gave the name to one of my
> > > other favourite bands, Steely Dan. I quote Jeff Baxter, "`Steely Dan' is a
> > > huge steam-powered hydraulic dildo in the William Boroughs book `The Naked
> > > Lunch'. We thought it'd make a good name for a rock band."
> > >         This is the only Steely Dan/Hawkwind connection I'm ever likely
> > > to find, so I thought I'd make the best of it ;-)
> > >         Jon
> >
> >         And, if what I've read is to be believed, the term Heavy Metal was
> used
> > as a musical destinction from a character in a Burroughs book, the Heavy
> > Metal Kid, I believe. It was then used by someone in the soundtrack from
> > Easy Rider, in Born to Be Wild, and the rest is then history.
> >         Here endeth the lesson.
> > -Max Wilcox
> >

I saw a documentary on TV some time back, and in this documentary they
speak of an actual machine called the Orgone Accumulator. The machine
did exist, and apparently did what the song claims it to do!

William