Chopped and Screwed

The discussion of "The Ticket That Exploded" seems to lack a lot of direct reference to portions of the novel. This may be because the messages are buried and cut up but within the reoccurring scenes and messages directed to the reader we have drawn out the virus that is the "Other Half". This "Other Half" is identified as the inner voice that we cannot silence, Burroughs suggests that by recording and replaying, cutting and mixing, we can play out this incessant noise and perhaps cut them up "into air into thin air".

The reoccurring images and plots of the newtboys, orgasm death skin, addicts, and nova police are the "Other Half" of WSB. This view into his fantasies, the writings from his immutable parasitic organism, seems like another attempt at flushing out the subconcsious, sub-vocal speech. "The Ticket" has a reoccuring reference of the body being split down the middle and spliced with another, and as with the recordings, one may take over the other half through splicing and if one can brake the link between the actual body and the sub-vocal speech they can free themselves physical death.

Really the only other reference to death seems to be the "Old Doctor", who lifting his old blue hands and bringing them down slow, quietung the marks, but if you call him twice he quiets you.

I think that to silence our "other half" may be something we desire, but what would life be without our virus, it is so ingrained into our existance that we justify our superiority over other life on having this other half or "sentience". So we have one romatic ideal of a return to the natural simple being yet the end results precludes such romaticism.

The result of all this is what? It is the same as sitting in the lotus position for 100 years... you get nowhere (I think).