Cronenberg stated that while writing the screenplay for Naked Lunch, he felt a moment of synergy with the writing style of Burroughs.

As a wedding present, Burroughs included a clause in his next contract that stated that Pierce must play Tarzan.

As the game reviewer Rick Swan stated, " It's as if H. P. Lovecraft had written Alice in Wonderland, with Hans Christian Andersen and William S. Burroughs as technical advisors.

In it, he is stated as being a faculty member of Miskatonic University as well as a relative of Edgar Rice Burroughs ' John Carter.

In August 2007, Burroughs and his publisher, St. Martin's Press, settled with the Turcotte family, who stated that they were the basis for the Finch family portrayed in Running With Scissors.

Upon settling the Running With Scissors case in August 2007, Burroughs stated, " I consider this not only a personal victory but a victory for all memoirists.

In an interview with Rock-A-Rolla magazine, Stephen R. Burroughs stated that " The back catalogue should be reissued this year.

Some stated that Brix was hand picked for this serial by Burroughs while others state that it was Dearholt who cast Brix and he only briefly met Burroughs afterwards for a handshake and some photographs.

They stated that they were the basis for the Finch family portrayed in the book but that Burroughs had fabricated or exaggerated various descriptions of their activities.

In the 2000s, Ludlow has been introduced to a new generation of psychedelics users through Terence McKenna, who read chapters from The Hasheesh Eater for a set of tapes (“ Victorian Tales of Cannabis ”) put out by Sound Photosynthesis, and who regularly praised Ludlow in his books, saying Ludlow “ began a tradition of pharmo-picaresque literature that would find later practitioners in William Burroughs and Hunter S. Thompson .… Part genius, part madman, Ludlow lies halfway between Captain Ahab and P. T.

Some of the book's " moments " ( as well as incidents loosely based upon Burroughs ' life ) are presented in this manner within the film.

Seth Putnam's lyrics are notorious for their black comedy, while The Locust tend toward satirical collage, indebted to William S. Burroughs ' cut-up method.

Several post-Mariner works are homages to the older phase of Mars fiction, circumventing the scientific picture of a dry and lifeless Mars with an unbreathable atmosphere through such science fiction generic staples as positing its future terraforming, or creating alternate history versions of Mars, where Burroughs ' Barsoom, Bradbury's Martian Chronicles or The War of the Worlds are literal truth.

* Some Sword and planet series, such as Michael Moorcock's Kane of Old Mars trilogy ( 1965 ) and Lin Carter's Mysteries of Mars ( 1973 – 1984 ) are deliberately anachronistic homages to earlier visions of Mars, particularly Burroughs '.

The latter architecture has continued to evolve into their current zSeries mainframes which, along with the then Burroughs and Sperry ( now Unisys ) MCP-based and OS1100 mainframes, are among the few mainframe architectures still extant that can trace their roots to this early period.

The results are mainly for IBM and others known as the BUNCH — Burroughs, UNIVAC, NCR, CDC, and Honeywell.

Novelists who are commonly counted to postmodern literature include Vladimir Nabokov, William Gaddis, John Hawkes, William Burroughs, Giannina Braschi, Kurt Vonnegut, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, E. L. Doctorow, Jerzy Kosinski, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, Kathy Acker, Ana Lydia Vega, and Paul Auster.

The names " Dejah Thoris ", " Burroughs ", and " Carter " are overt references to John Carter and Dejah Thoris, the main protagonists of the Barsoom ( Mars ) novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Other architectures are Unisys – formerly Univac – Distributed Computing Architecture ( DCA ) and – formerly Burroughs – Burroughs Network Architecture ( BNA ), both largely obsolete by 2012.

Some portions in the south are zoned to John Burroughs Middle School.

While the list of those serving has not been preserved, among those who are known to have been in the Continental army were Thomas Thompson, Major Thomas Frothingham, Ebenezer Lane, Daniel Peck, David Arnold, Henry Wetby, Joseph Huntington, John Croat and Robert Burroughs: Among those serving in the War of 1812 were Peter Sipperly, Philip Snyder, Paul Wattenpaugh and Philip Lafite.

They are the Burroughs ( Dr. Frank R .) House on Main Street, the Greene ( Nelson H .) House on South Adams Street, the Ritzville Carnegie Library on West Main Street, and the Ritzville High School, also known as Old Ritzville High School, on Seventh Avenue.

* Alamut and Hassan-i-Sabbah are described vividly in William S. Burroughs ' The Western Lands.

The vignettes ( which Burroughs called " routines ") are drawn from Burroughs ' own experience in these places, and his addiction to drugs ( heroin, morphine, and while in Tangier, " Majoun "— a strong marijuana confection — as well as a German opioid, brand name Eukodol, of which he wrote frequently ).

Matt Dillon stars in the title role, and Kelly Lynch, Heather Graham, and William S. Burroughs are also featured.

The works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and E R Eddison are probably the earliest examples of this genre, especially the John Carter of Mars series.

They are largely classed as " science fantasy " because of the presence of swords and, usually, an archaic aristocratic social system ; Burroughs ' own novels are, however, skeptical in spirit and almost free of any non-rationalized " fantastic " element ( other than the never-explained mechanism by which John Carter gets to Mars ).

" As Burroughs battles with the self and what is human, he finds that language is the only way to maintain dominance over the " powerful instruments of control ," which are the most prevalent enemies of human society.

That is, modern architectures such as x86 or PPC are essentially traditional instruction set based architectures rather than holistic designs like the original Burroughs systems.

Extremely controversial in both its subject matter and its use of obscene language ( something Burroughs recognized and intended ), the book was banned in Boston and Los Angeles in the United States, and several European publishers were harassed.

Jungle Jim was " set in contemporary times and the exotic Malay peninsula of islands, was intended to hark back to the original tales of Kipling, Haggard and Burroughs ".

50th anniversary edition, with Burroughs ' intended title spelling

* Burroughs produced the B1700 or " small systems " computers that were designed to be microprogrammed, with each process potentially getting its own virtual machine designed to be the best match to the programming language chosen for the program being run.

Others noted that almost all traits claimed to be uniquely cyberpunk could in fact be found in older writers ' works — often citing J. G. Ballard, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Stanisław Lem, Samuel R. Delany, and even William S. Burroughs.

The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts.

Burroughs also suggested cut-ups may be effective as a form of divination saying, " When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

* A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs claims to be the manuscript of John Carter relating his adventures on Mars, except for the first chapter explaining how the manuscript was received.

They advanced drastically in musical and lyrical sophistication: by the end they were quoting American writer William S. Burroughs (" A Different Kind of Tension "), declaiming their catechism in the anthem " I Believe ", and tuning in to a fantasy radio station on which their songs could be heard (" Radio Nine ").

Trilogies can also be connected in less obvious ways, such as The Nova Trilogy of novels by William S. Burroughs, each written using Brion Gysin's cut-up technique.

Another possible influence was thought to be a character in the Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasy novel H. R. H. The Rider which features a " Prince Boris of Karlova ", but as the novel was not published until 1915, the influence may be backward, that Burroughs saw Karloff in a play and adapted the name for the character.

She can be seen using a later generation of this device in her film Home of the Brave during the " Late Show " segment in which she manipulates a sentence recorded by William S. Burroughs.

Orgone interested Burroughs particularly because he believed that it could be used to ease or alleviate " junk sickness "— a popular term for heroin withdrawal.

This was done at the behest of public servant Burroughs Pelletier, who had been told that the Ministry wanted a symbol but were unsure as to what should be used.

One innovation of S & T was its feedback system, in which readers could answer various multiple-choice questions on a return card, whose data would then be entered into a Burroughs minicomputer for analysis.

The Burroughs ALGOL compiler was very fast — this impressed the Dutch scientist Edsger Dijkstra when he submitted a program to be compiled at the B5000 Pasadena plant.

The Burroughs ALGOL syntax, unlike the official language, requires that each variable ( or other object ) be declared before it is used, so it is feasible to write an ALGOL compiler that reads the data only once.

When asked once about March's The Wild Party, the acclaimed writer William Burroughs replied, " It's the book that made me want to be a writer.

* 1988: Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo, an American woman formerly called Catharine Burroughs, became the first Western woman to be named a reincarnate lama.

With the addition of Nur An, a disaffected Jaharian warrior, and another escaped woman slave, Phao, Hadron's quest becomes more collaborative than Burroughs ' usual, although Tavia, in an unsurprising plot development, is revealed to be a princess at the end.

During production McGrath and Southern discussed a future project based on the life of gangster Dutch Schultz, to be made in collaboration with William Burroughs and Alexander Trocchi, but nothing came of it.

Although based on folklore, the story contains strong autobiographical elements from Burroughs ' own life: he accidentally shot his own wife in a drunken attempt at recreating the William Tell legend, and the story as a whole may be construed as a warning tale about the destructive powers of addiction.