{"id":1811,"date":"2010-11-23T11:13:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2010\/11\/vintage_burroughs\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T11:13:54","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T19:13:54","slug":"vintage_burroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2010\/11\/vintage_burroughs.html","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Burroughs &#8230; No Miracles Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the week of Thanksgiving, after all: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2008\/11\/words_of_gratitude.html\">Words of Gratitude.<\/a> And here&#8217;s more Burroughs &#8230; on Jesus &#8230; the A-Bomb &#8230; the Titanic &#8230; Doctor Benway &#8230; you get the idea. It&#8217;s a 1989 reading. He was doing perfected shtick by then. The automatic audience adulation, which was unavoidable under the circumstances &#8212; he was reading at the Naropa Institute &#8212; is a little sickening. But what the hell. Toward the end of the reading, about 43 minutes in, Burroughs adlibs, &#8220;I think we might all believe in a magical universe, because that&#8217;s about the only thing that can save Spaceship Earth at this point &#8212; a miracle.&#8221; From his tone, though, you can hear he doesn&#8217;t expect one.<br \/>\n<center><object width=\"400\" height=\"26\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\"><param value=\"true\" name=\"allowfullscreen\"\/><param value=\"always\" name=\"allowscriptaccess\"\/><param value=\"high\" name=\"quality\"\/><param value=\"true\" name=\"cachebusting\"\/><param value=\"#000000\" name=\"bgcolor\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.1.swf\" \/><param value=\"config={'key':'#$aa4baff94a9bdcafce8','playlist':[{'url':'Burroughs_reading_contemporary_art_July_1989_89P103_vbr.mp3','autoPlay':false}],'clip':{'autoPlay':true,'baseUrl':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Burroughs_reading_contemporary_art_July_1989_89P103\/'},'canvas':{'backgroundColor':'#000000','backgroundGradient':'none'},'plugins':{'audio':{'url':'http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.audio-3.2.1-dev.swf'},'controls':{'playlist':false,'fullscreen':false,'height':26,'backgroundColor':'#000000','autoHide':{'fullscreenOnly':true},'scrubberHeightRatio':0.6,'timeFontSize':9,'mute':false,'top':0}},'contextMenu':[{},'-','Flowplayer v3.2.1']}\" name=\"flashvars\"\/><\/object><\/center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/jan-herman\/vintage-burroughs-for-tha_b_787481.html\">(Crossposted at HuffPo)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the week of Thanksgiving, after all: Words of Gratitude. And here&#8217;s more Burroughs &#8230; on Jesus &#8230; the A-Bomb &#8230; the Titanic &#8230; Doctor Benway &#8230; you get the idea. It&#8217;s a 1989 reading. He was doing perfected shtick by then. The automatic audience adulation, which was unavoidable under the circumstances &#8212; he was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-td","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}