BURROUGHS WITH MUSIC （38） SPARE ASS ANNIE AND OTHER TALES－その2

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William S. Burroughs／SPARE ASS ANNIE AND OTHER TALES [Island／Red Label] release.1993


Art Direction & Design : David Calderly

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William S. Burroughs (vo, words), The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (music)
01. Interlude 1 (Wrinkled Earlobes Are A Sign of Impending Heartattacking)

Message. Wrinkled earlobes should be a sign of impending heartattacking.

教えてやろう。耳たぶにしわがあると、それは心臓発作の予兆だ。

いきなり何言ってんだかわかりません（笑）。内容はアドリブ。

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ふざけてんのか？と思ったら、どうもこれは心臓病学会でも認められている真面目な話らしい。

・William J. Elliott （1983.12） Ear Lobe Crease And Coronary Artery Disease : 1,000 Patients And Review of the Literature. American Journal of Medicine, vol.75, issue 6, pp.1024－1034.
http://www.amjmed.com/article/0002-9343(83)90883-5/fulltext
（上記URLではAbstractのみ、本文は有料）

日本でも追試されており、その有効性が確認されている。へえ～。

・小林陽二ほか （1987） Diagonal Ear Lobe Crease の動脈硬化判定の有用性についての考察 : 集団検診受診者における検討より. 日本老年医学会雑誌, vol.24, no.6, pp.525－531.
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/geriatrics1964/24/6/24_6_525/_pdf/-char/ja

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ジャケットで、Burroughsの背後にあるのは、その耳たぶだ。ちょっと見、なんだかわからないが。「天使の羽」と思った人も多いんじゃないだろうか。

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William S. Burroughs (vo, words), The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy (music)
02. Spare Ass Annie

小説Interzoneの一節を朗読。

DHHのbase trackがカッコイイ。Breakで挿入されるSamplingのhornsやvoicesもアクセントとして効果的。

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Spare Ass Annie

When I became captain of the town, I decided to extend asylum to certain citizens who were persona non grata elsewhere in the area because of their disgusting and disquieting deformities.

One was known as Spare Ass Annie. She had an auxiliary asshole in the middle of her forehead, like a baneful bronze eye.

Another was a scorpion from the neck down. He had retained the human attribute of voice and was given to revolting paroxysms of self-pity and self-disgust during which he would threaten to kill himself by a sting in the back of the neck. He never threatened anyone else, though his sting would have caused instant death.

Spare Ass Annie

Another, and by far the most detrimental, was like a giant centipede, but terminated in human legs and lower abdomen. Sometimes he walked half-erect, his centipede body swaying ahead of him. At other times he crawled, dragging his human portion as an awkward burden. < -- omitted -- > He was known as the Centipeter, because he was continually making sexual advances to anyone he could corner, and anyone who passed out was subject to wake up with Centipete in his bed.

One degenerate hermaphrodite known as Fish Cunt Sara claimed he was the best lay in town: Besides, he’s a perfect gentleman in every sense of the word. He’s kind and good, which means nothing to the likes of you...

Spare Ass Annie

These creatures had developed in a region where the priests carried out strange rites. They built boxes from the moist, fresh bones of healthy youths, captives from neighboring tribes. < -- omitted -- >

Pregnant women were placed in the boxes and left on the peak for a period of three hours. Often the women died, but those who survived usually produced monsters. The priests considered these monstrosities a way of humiliating the human race before the gods, in the hope of diverting their anger.

These horrible freaks were highly prized, and they lived in the temple. The women who gave birth to the most monsters received gold stars, which they were authorized to wear on ceremonial occasions.

Once a month they held a great festival at which everyone gathered in a round stone temple, open at the top, and prostrated themselves on the floor, assuming the most disgusting and degraded positions possible, so that the gods would see they were not attempting to elevate themselves above their station.

The habit of living in filth and humiliation finally occasioned a plague, a form of acute leprosy that depopulated the area. The surviving freaks (who seemed immune to the plague) I decided to receive as an object lesson in how far human kicks can go.

from William S. Burroughs （1989） INTERZONE. Viking, NYC.


（1990） Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 版

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INTERZONEは、THE NAKED LUNCHの拾遺文を中心とした短編集（的なもの）。ここでは「額に補助の肛門をつけた女」だの「首から下がサソリの男」だの、THE NAKED LUNCHらしい奇怪なイメージが充満している。