Frozen Turkey

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So whimsical, so odd, so playful, so bizarre, so gruesome...so Burroughs! Everything You Always Wanted to Know About William Burroughs* .

The guests are sitting around the large chimney of O’Ryan’s sitting room. It’s a special night and there are quite a few important guests: Andy Warhol, Norman Mailer, Anthony Burgess, and many more. The star of the night is William Burroughs. His stories, some funny and some dreadful, overlap other guests’ conversations . One of Sydney O’Ryan’s friends has brought a magical mirror from the Spanish Sahara, which causes amazing visions. The guests’ conversations intertwine in a growingly inextricable verbal jungle; Burroughs, exhausted, shuts his eyes and abandons himself to surreal fantasies about Ian Sommerville. Honeypenny – a literary game bringing to some bizarre surprises - is played. Burroughs gets in front of the magical mirror and tells what he sees; another magical mirror, in Tangiers, ten years back – visions within the vision: An examination by the Mexican police, Joan Vollmer, Mr. Connell during College time, Mrs. Bragwell who, at eighty-five, has just discovered heroin, the Boston trial to the Naked Lunch, Mollie Blackwood the nurse, and Dr. Dent’s nephew who, portrayed on a painting, “gets out” of the canvas like the Purple Rose of Cairo’s character, and starts selling many objects that once belonged to Burroughs in a weird auction. The magical mirror is set aside; the swollen river of conversation gets back to its tumultuous course. The night is over. Burroughs walks under the snowfall, and meets a hobo who makes an obscure prophecy in an incomprehensible language.