引き続き
Dub Spencer & Trance Hill/WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS IN DUB [Echo Beach] release 2014
Art Work : Ben Hito
------------------------------------------
05. Virus B-23 (Cities of the Red Night)
from Virus B-23 (rec.1975/04/17) IN : WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS / JOHN GIORNO
also Virus B-23 (rec.1975/04/17). IN : THE BEST OF WILLIAM BURROUGHS : CD3-01
------------------------------------------
お次は、Burroughsによれば、1975年時点で執筆中の小説CITIES OF THE RED NIGHTからの朗読だと言うのだが、
・William S. Burroughs (1981) CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT. Viking Press, NYC.
にはこの文章は見当たらない。この部分は1975年当時の草稿で、その後ボツになったのだろう(秘書James Garuerholzが、売り物になるよう、だいぶ切り刻んだらしい)。それを考えると、貴重な朗読ということになる。
------------------------------------------
Ah, this reading is from a novel in progress titled "CITIES OF THE RED NIGHT".
This passage concerns a virus which occasions biologic alterations in those who survive, and these alterations are genetically conveyed giving rise to a race of mutants known as the feverfreaks. Some of these mutations are favorable and some otherwise.
A top government official bluntly warned:
"Virus B-23 now loose in our overcrowded cities, is an agent that produces biologic changes in those affected < -- omitted -- > they will spread as far and fast as possible to destroy enemies and quite literally make friends."
Junkies, however, are only lightly affected by the virus and remain characteristically unchanged.
引用元:
・EOI SABIÑÁNIGO > 4. DEPARTAMENTO DE INGLÉS > Categorías > LISTEN & READ > William S. Burroughs 1914-1997 (December 5th, 2014)
http://www.eoisabi.org/?p=6046
------------------------------------------
Burroughsの朗読は1970年代のものなので、だいぶ手慣れた感が出始めている。Virus蔓延ネタは1960年代から繰り返し現れる定番ネタ。
Dubと朗読のcombinationもよく考えてある。朗読の挿入タイミングは絶妙。
0 件のコメント:
コメントを投稿