Science Project (2/2)

Science Project (above, detail and text) "William S. Burroughs prefaces his first book (Queer, not published until 1985), by acknowledging that he never would have become a writer had he not killed his wife–Jane Vollmer–while drunkenly playing William Tell among friends."

(below) "Viewers of 1967’s The Prisoner recognize the show’s 'You are, Number 1,' has a comma in it, and the BBC has to pull the series off the air after 'Episode One: Arrival.'”

(above, detail and text) Republican Senator Arlen Spector, who early in his career was a lawyer for the Warren Commission and author of the “magic bullet” theory, changes his party affiliation to Democrat.

(above, detail and text) "Jean-Paul Sartre's influential essay on Calder's mobiles praises their constantly becoming and not rigidly being."

(below) After stumbling over every inane obstacle to writing music, Edward Bast in William Gaddis' J.R. (1974) asks himself for the first time, "What if I didn't have to be a composer?"