Many new things to tell you this month. But first, I would like to thanks specially Foe for all his work in Interzone through his multimedia site and other initiatives, and Gary for his great help in the computer problems I got 2 weeks ago :

1. This month occured the biggest problem since the beginning of Interzone : the technician who was supposed to partition one of my hard drives formated both of them, and deleted the whole content MN !!!

Fortunately, our common writings were on disks, so they are saved, but the most of the mail is lost L .

I could get your addresses back with the disk I gave to Gary in March on a floppy disk, so he could gave them back and help to enter them again into the Internet mail address book. Though I lost some of you who changed their E-mail addresses since. If you know where I can join : Yana Ya Ya, GeeOrBee, Paul Miller, Ramuntcho Matta, Allen Large, Jonathan Gabriel Ziegler and Phranco Fenderson , please let me know.

If you could send me back some of the common mails I sent to you with addresses on them, this would be useful.

I wanted to include some mail exchanges in the book too, had not had time to class this part, so if you got them and want to include them, then you can send them back.

Nevertheless, this accident, which I first saw as a desaster, does not seem to have big consequences, thanks to your help to bring back the infos, and does not prevent us to function again as before. J But this time, I record the mail on disks as well.

For the monthly meetings on the 23rd we use different systems at the same time: It's a bit messy sometimes, but it works.

1. #Interzone in mIRC, Random US DALnet server
2. ICQ : my # is : 3146693
3. And Gay.com. For the meeting of may 23 rd, this is the place where most of the people gathered . For all infos on the chat appointment, see the chat page : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Chat.html

We used Music Art and Books in the third floor during the previous months, but as most of you who frequent it are on the second floor, we move to Music Art and Books floor 2 for practical reasons.

The time is supposed to be 11 pm here (5 pm in New York), but we generally begin to meet before, and it ends about 1.30 am here.

Yesterday, I got the following mail from gay.com :

Boston Pride at http://gis.net/~docker/ Chicago Pride '98 at http://www.equitrends.net/pride98 Gay Lebanon at http://web.singnet.com.sg/~parkerl Gay & Lesbian Southwest Florida at http://www.gayswf.simplenet.com Gay Richmond http://www.gayrichmond.com Integrity (G&L Episcopalians) at http://members.aol.com/natlinteg Monterey Bay http://www.mbay.net/~wes/monterey Province Town http://www.province-town.com Student Christian Movement of Canada at http://www.web.net/~scmcan/ Womens Resource Center http://www.womensresourcecntr.org/

d) Foe proposes to set up a chat-room directly in the site. I'm okay with it. Lets try and see.

 3) The common writings of "The Time of Naguals" :

First since this morning, we got a corrector for our writings, Ernest, who is a Canadian translater and writer, as I am not competent to do it for writings in English.

As far as the French is concerned, Ernest is also more competent than me as he is a professional, and I am a free-lance.

Concerning the French writings, my experience here and previously through the magazine "Objectifs" by the group B 23 led me to take distance towards literary criteria definited by Richelieu some centuries ago, and on which rest the most of our grammar and orthograph : some of the French writings I get do not fit to those criteria, though they express what the writer tries to express more accurately than if they were in so called "good French". As a result,as those styles seem to me richer than formal language, I personaly would agree to respect them. You tell me your point of view.

I do not write a very good english myself, which has not been a barrier since now in Interzone, and which you do not seem to mind. So I do not see any reason to apply to other people criteria I do not fit into J .

About the publishing I have sent about a month ago to the publisher of Dagorno editions the 2 first tomes"Informations on Interzone" and the French part of "Le Temps des Naguals", (about 150 pages the whole) , as he said he is interested in writings on Burroughs. I have not got any reply since. I thought I would send him quickly the rest of the writings, but did not realize there was so many, and with the computer problems, had to leave them aside for a week.

Here is the content I got at the moment, which is not complete, as some of you still have writings to send, and E-mail exchanges will be included in it too.

In case you would have sent me writings which would not be included here, please let me know and send them back

Thse are the writings you can see in this site in the second menu of the front page : "Le Temps des Naguals" :

• Juniel al Mage : L'Elfe Mellifère
• Jérome Pintoux : L'Enigme du Pantagruelion : Lecture des Derniers Chapitres du tiers Livre
• Liberale Maroelli : Christmas Bill Meetin'
• Elisabeth Lebovici : Play Beat With Brion Gysin
• Dreams
• Vyvyan Kinross : Son Cosas de la Vida : The Legacy of William Seward Burroughs
• The Ran : Poems
• Mike Mertens : Alibi
• GeeOrBee : The Night Has Never Come
• Rick Gentry, Andrew shachat & Shuhei Higashi : Dewdrop
• Grazulis, Andrew Shachat, Rick Gentry, Foe Tamajiro : Homage to HIS (1) : 10 pages
• Grazulis : Agent Zero stepts out …
• Andrew Shachat : The Agent looks down
• Foe Tamajiro : At the darkest moment of the night
• Agent Ricochet : Agent Zero steps out
• Foe Tamajiro : Agent Zero steps out
• Grazulis : Homage to His (2) : 8 pages
• Paul Sinclair : A Code for a Source collapse 
• Kat : Sapphire days

• Nicholas Knutsen : Poetry + Synchronicity mardi 9 septembre 1997
• the 111 experience of J'lahn By Jim Ward-Nichols
• Rick Gentry : Words and Images 29 Septembre 97
• Rick Gentry : Nine reasons why I love Burroughs
• Jonathan Nelson : Bio
• Gary Leeming : 29 Octobre 97
• Rick Gentry : Random thoughts
• Foe : Re : Lineliness of a howling dog penis
• Andrew : Sermon of the worms
• Foe : the Assassins
• Rick Gentry : My head is Opaque
• Foe : Officer Foe missed the flight
• Gary : Resistance is futile
• Jake D. Steele : " The Groundskeeper "
• Biographies : Jon Nelson, Vince Forgerty

 Tome 5 : Short stories : 70 pages

• Gary Leeming : The Painter Man
• Chaya : Who must we blame , Feminine
• Mathis B Rogers : A weeks vacation

Other books you have writen and which are ready to publish : Sean D. Young : "Three Graces", Future49: "Insanity Factory", Alex Booth : "The Monument", Andrew Shachat : "Rub Out", and "Le Carrefour des Impasses". So as you can see, this is a lot, and not finished, as some of you keep on sending writings.

 4) The CD Last Words 1999 : translation of the Last Words of Hassan Sabbah and Foe's multimedia's site :

There are several versions of this text; the ones we use are the one in this site :

• http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/Derniersmots.html, transcripted from Burroughs' recoring you can listen to there,
• and the one from Nova Express in Gary's site : "Welcome to Interzone" at :  http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/text.htm :

James Grauerholz said to send him the exact texts we want to use, so he will transmit them to Burroughs' agents who will allow us to use them. (James, if you read this, I lost your E-mail in the computer disaster, can you send it back please ? Thanks a lotJ )

Foe has been making a multimedia site : see : http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/foe4foe/, http://members.xoom.com/foe4foe/bio.htm and http://members.xoom.com/foe4foe/songlist.htm

He has been putting a lot of musics and videos, by him and other people, and is gonna gather the recordings of the Last Words. He is applying for a business license for this multi-media company too. Once he gets qualified, he will be able to legally operate the web business.

Some of you have sent me tapes with music : I'm gonna record them and send them to Foe, so he can put them in the multi-media site.

a) We are looking for an economical organization which fits our needs in Interzone and allows us to earn our life with our creations in any domains. This requires to determine a system or model based on a common agreement.

As the question is vast and complicated, and none of us has a ready made answer, the best seems to gather our different point of view, data, experiences on the question. Then we shall have more elements of knowledge and understanding, and different angles on the question, and can see further then.

In this area, Foe proposes :

Foe : "We can make this organization into a reference service. Each of us become a referral agent, and when you know there is a certain need that you are not capable of fulfilling but somebody else from Interzone can, you refer through mails

I agree with the principal as far as I am concerned : for a common organization to work, the best is that everybody makes what he is the best at, what he is the only one to know really, and that he can do it freely, spontaneously, and when he gets time and feeling to make it, (otherwise it sucks). So we can become a performant group.

The bulletin board site seems very necessary at the moment, because many of you want to exchange on different subjects, and we should get organized seriously to make it.

The subjects of interest are :

• The CD
• Dreams (you still keep on sending them, see the page Dream).
• Dreamachine : we must gather our respective infos on the subject, as we are probably the people who are the most aware in the world on it. Some of you also have different technics than the 78 rmp turn-table. Besides the technic aspect, we also gather infos on its effects : see : Brion Gysin's Dreamachine : http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/8594/dream-index.html See also Scott's page in Cydonia: http://iws.net/cydonia/dreamachineb.htm
• Expansion of conscience : several of us report about phenomenons they are living which escape to their understanding as we got no fittable map which allows to understand them out of Burrough's writings : synchronicities, similar dreams between us, inner changes, increasing of awareness, etc… Exchanging about them allows to lower the anxiety which can come from unexpected new experiments, and to state that these are of the domain of facts, and not the product of our imagination. So no need to be anxious about our mental balance, nor to refer to freudian nosography : Jung and Burroughs are much more accurate here to understand what's going on, as well as other authors who wrote about theses phenomenon : see Burroughs' interview by Victor Bockris in : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/dr-burroughs.html
• We also share our respective references . Here are some :
• Ma friend J.D. sent me this; some site that belongs to barley licking Prophet DJ dude. Check out the rock steady yo...http://www.earthchanges.com/maps1.htm Hidegard von Bingen:http://www.serve.com/knightcrash/BISON/bison2.htm Zen war : http://www.teleport.com/~zennist/zenwar.htm Templars http://intranet.ca/~magicworks/knights/ The Art Bell : http://www.artbell.com/ Bernard de Clairvaux : http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Clairvaux
• Communes : where to settle them , which kind of communes do we want, (we can have different types corresponding to different tastes) , which kind of relations shall we adopt in them, etc… The places foreseen until here by some of you are Jakarta in Indonesia and Amsterdam in Holland. Nothing has been put up physicly yet (lack of money to buy a place for some, not ready yet for others), but quite a lot of us fancy the idea of having places of our own here and there. Some English friends of mines who are not part of Interzone have been buying some place here to settle, due to the low prices of the houses (supposed to be the lowest of France), they are gonna fix with their kids and kids' frends. They do not call it a commune, but it looks like such anyway.
• Medical research : I must gather again the doc on the subject. Main directions we have been working at untill here : apomorphine cure for addiction, psychological training to increase the defenses of the body (cancer, aids) , method to get rid of nightmares (Patricia Garfield's).
• Academy on the web : we can share our data and domains of studdies on the web as we do in E-mails, so we can get to much more effective results. The ones we already got are due to the Third Mind we have created, the result of which is superior to the sum of the parts (law of non-additivity).
• I have some writings in several domains which I want to put to Interzone's disposal for free without copyright ("The Crossroads of Dead Ends" : see Mr B , which is nearly finished being translated in English , writings on general semantics, some on Burroughsian domains of research, etc…). You can already see the summing up of general semantics at : http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/intro-gs.html & http://www.interpc.fr/mapage/westernlands/intro-gs2.html

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