{"id":5166,"date":"2013-02-15T07:44:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=5166"},"modified":"2024-02-29T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T22:31:09","slug":"unbeatable-sinclair-beiles-tells-it-as-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2013\/02\/unbeatable-sinclair-beiles-tells-it-as-it-was.html","title":{"rendered":"<center>Unbeatable Sinclair Beiles Tells It As It Was<\/center>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>He talks about William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Tangiers, the Villa Deliria, the Thousand and One Nights, <em>Naked Lunch,<\/em> cut-ups, <em>Minutes to Go<\/em>, the Beat Hotel, Jean Fanchette, Ian Sommerville, the Dream Machine. It&#8217;s an unbeatable discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PlVi3o1UdW8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=91&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Gary Cummiskey, co-editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2010\/02\/who_was_sinclair_beiles.html\">Who Was Sinclair Beiles?<\/a> and the publisher of Dye Hard Press, tipped me to this hidden treasure, which he has also posted on his <a href=\"http:\/\/whowassinclairbeiles.blogspot.com\/2013\/02\/sinclair-beiles-talking-about-meeting.html\">blog<\/a>. In an email message, he writes: <em>&#8220;It was filmed by some chap who was visiting South Africa at the time [1994] \u2013 there were two previous short clips on YouTube, Sinclair reading two poems and talking about the Jung Institute, but this is the first time I have seen this (fairly lengthy) clip on YouTube!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Postscript:<\/strong> About that hornet&#8217;s nest in Gysin&#8217;s restaurant, Gerard Bellaart writes in an email: <em>&#8220;Sinclair always maintained it fell on Burroughs&#8217; head. It is in a letter to me as well. He was a genius at revision!&#8221;<\/em> Which makes the story even better. Such mastery is to be envied. At least it fell on <u>somebody&#8217;s<\/u> head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He talks about William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Tangiers, the Villa Deliria, the Thousand and One Nights, Naked Lunch, cut-ups, Minutes to Go, the Beat Hotel, Jean Fanchette, Ian Sommerville, the Dream Machine. It&#8217;s an unbeatable discovery. Gary Cummiskey, co-editor of Who Was Sinclair Beiles? and the publisher of Dye Hard Press, tipped me to this [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-art","7":"category-literature","8":"category-media","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-1lk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166","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=5166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59576,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5166\/revisions\/59576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}