Hi all,

1. OUR NAME :

Since the latest report, 9 people wrote about it :

All the others had one.

INTERZONE

A special toast for it.

May it live long and die happy, and so may we.

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Concerning its eventual publishing, we got 2 more propositions :

The fact is if we consider the potential of the whole group in publishing area and gather all the books the writers have written already and which are not published yet, we probably have enough to start a collection (about 10 titles).

So these are different possibilities. I do not know enough myself about publishing, especially in countries outside of France, so I am not competent to take decisions in this domain on the base of the infos I got.

Whatever we decide concerning the publication of our writings, we can anyhow put them on the web.

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3. THE SITES :

For the moment, we have no organized squad to begin a formal review, but we can begin to exchanges between us. We need to have a place where we can all write our ideas, propositions, etc. and consult the ones of the others.

ICQ is very practical to know when the other ones of the group who also got the system are connected. So it's possible to get in direct communication through messages or a chat-room immediately. The content of the conversations can also be recorded and saved.

But for the chat-rooms, it seems that ICQ is slower, and less easy to use for several people. Anyway it is the only way sometimes, when servers are busy, I cannot get to the chat-planet system.

My ICQ # is : 3146693. At least 8 of us are on it.

We can meet in Dan's chat-room on week-ends; I can get connected on Saturday between 2 pm to midnight (8 am to 6 pm at Toronto's time), on Sunday all day and evening upto midnight (up to 6 pm in Toronto). Or early in the morning (5 - 8 am : 11 pm - 2 am in Toronto).

During the week, I get connected mainly between 10pm and midnight (4 -6 pm in T).

If you want to get in touch, send a message with the exact time you will get connected, as I may not be on line all the time.

(see his page on Brion Gysin, which contains 2 poems of Brion).

m) Centre of coordination of the different sites of the group :

My server gives me free pages, so I can use them in this aim, which looks the most practicle as I already got the infos.

So I am prepairing it and am gonna send it before it appears on the web, so you can let me know if you want to be in it.

Its name is :

"Les Terres Occidentales" - "The Western Lands" :

We can put here the addresses of you sites if you want (personal or professional), and I can make a list of all of them, which would be practical to access to them, and to link our sites between each others. I can also put your E-mail address.

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We can also use those opportunities for the medical research.

It seems a respectable percentage of us are thinking about it, and that we have complementary data and experiences. I propose we use Phillip's site to make a forum on it. (see below : Academy).

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5. OTHER OPPORTUNITIES POSSIBLE IN THE FRAME OF THE GROUP :

For instance, if I take my own case : the official qualification would be : psychiatric nurse. Now in the frame of this group, it becomes : nurse, translator, writer, teacher of general semantics, cook, gardener, typist, dreamer, etc.

Or John Smith : plumber, guitar-player, painter, farmer, poet, etc...

I do not know if this is possible , it depends on the number of people who will use this. But more than half of the people I got personal contacts with would gladly stop working tomorrow morning if they got a better solution.

Some people are interested in using the opportunities of the group to promote their work. We can have a rubric with the sites addresses of the professionals of the web, video, CD, softwares, etc.., and also writers, painters, musicians, etc… So we could would be aware of the actual potential of the group in this area, and work with them.

Also people who would look for somebody to employ could look here and join us directly.

Employers looking for staff could put their work offers, so people looking for a job could contact them directly.

We can also make a centre of lending, where members of the group who got an urgent need of money can ask for it, and get the amount they need, so they can give it back later on, or find with the lender another ground of exchange. This would make us able to solve rather quicly urgent economical problems at the scale of the group, and could be directly profitable to each of us.

• a place we can come and gather for holidays,
• a place to settle for a moment and have a community life with other Burroughs fans, make researches and experiments on Burroughs' and Gysin's domains of exploration,
• a gay male society, run like a village, a republic,
• a place for medical cares and research (apomorphine cure, people who got cancer, AIDS, etc...)
• a shelter or refuge.

• a farm or a castle,
• an abbey (one is for sale in Belgium : 50 rooms, 100 people can live in it, but it's expensive : 450 million francs, and requires a lot of repair.)
• an empty village in France : costs nothing, but everything is to build again,
• an empty hotel or YMCA , sort of Beat Hotel,
• a place in a cheap country (Morocco, India…)
• a free place we live for free and fix in exchange,
• a cheap land we buy and build houses on,
• others not foreseen here ,

• literary or artistic association,
• intellectual movement,
• unit of teaching and research,
• association of individuals,
• private residency, which would belong to the group as an association,
• a hotel- restaurant who would be bought by someone in the group, etc., and in which we would be guests, kind of "Alices'Restaurant".
• a place in which would have several activities : for instance the people begin with a poultry farm and then someone comes who is specialist in antiques, and they run an antique business at the same time.
• Etc.

At least 3 of us are interested in organizing such a thing : me in France, Iggy in Belgium and Rick in California.

Now we are not obliged to decide for only one possibility : if we can conciliate the whole things, why not doing them ?

It depends on what we want to do really.

Now the idea of a physical Academy is not shared by everybody, far from it, because of the practical problems which come out from it : owing a place, having money, problems of relations, of status, etc.

But we do not need a vote : people who want to try it can do it, without involving the others, like the rest of the activities which have been realized since now.

Having a place on the web where we could express ourselves and exchange about it would be the most practical, and seems to me indispensable. No one has got "all" the informations needed to take a decision, we must take the time to get to know what we want to do really, which requires gathering the different possibilities , the infos at different levels (financial, legal, etc.), exchange the points of view, think about it, and then see.

At the moment, several of us are having troubles of different sort : money, splitting with the partner, stressing job, sexual discrimination, etc., and find themselves in front of unexpected problems. For some of them, putting up a safe place where to live temporarilly is not an academic question.

In the rubric "one is never so well served than by oneself", I propose we make a group with the people who are in this situation and studdy the question practically, in US and Europe.

People in the group who have empty houses they do not use can propose them, and people who want to help could send money to pay the rent.

Then once they are together in the place, they can studdy together ways to earn their life according to what they can and want to do.

So through a coordinate action, we should be able to solve practicly the main basic problems at the scale of the group.

Iggy is dreaming about going on the sea with 30 guys for a trip, kind of Captain Mission's trip in "The Cities". He is looking for volunteers for the crew (no relation with the hoax, just a synchronicity). Has anybody a ship and some pirate island to propose as well ?

Presently, considering the different qualifications and experiences in the group, we can write a scenario, play it, film it and distribute it. We can make videos, or a real movie.

This can bring money quite easily with not much investment.

Also in this area, we can make a serie of documents about the group, starting from the beginning, since now, and follow the evolution in future, which would attest about the work done at the level of the facts. To my knowledge, such an adventure as this Burroughsian group, at this scale, has never been attempted before.

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4. THE ADDRESS-BOOK :

So here we are. I hope everything is okay from your side. Here things are going on well.

Thanks for making this adventure possible, for your support, propositions and participation.

Yours Johnsonly.*

Izzy

The only thing that could unite the planet is a united space program... the earth becomes a space station and war is simply out, irrelevant, flatly insane in a context of research centers, spaceports, and the exhilaration of working with people you like and respect toward an agreed-upon objective, an objective from which all workers will gain. Happiness is a by-product of function. The planetary space station will give all participants an opportunity to function."