Sunday, January 25, 2009

Thats the ticket

The first few pages of The Ticket were almost pure gibberish about what seemed like little boy orgies and some magical garden where there are people to turn all of the wild sexual fantasies into reality. So far this book is coming off as more disturbing than entertaining. Though I think that may be the point that Burroughs is trying to get across, perhaps he wants us to take a deeper look at how we have viewed sex over the past, but it seems like a strange approach. Usually when people are speculating about our cultures fascination with sex it turns to a more conventional tone, irking us back to less is more.
To contradict myself though the media has always had a “sex sells” mentality, even all the way back to the days of Lulu. Im wondering what the actual plot of this book is going to be or whether is a just a tainted old mans ramblings about fantasies that never came to fruition. Im thinking that the more I read the more the story will piece itself together. hopefully

1 comment:

  1. Why should plot be the highest value of any piece of writing? I mean Aristotle did make that point, but Aristotle's aesthetics have been challenged in many ways.

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