Beat (2000)
Courtney Love: Joan Vollmer Burroughs
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Joan Vollmer : So, do they have ruins down in Guatemala?
William S. Burroughs : It's all ruins. Or it all will be, given enough time.
Joan Vollmer : Ah, just like people.
William S. Burroughs : Yes. But people decay more promptly than Mayan temples.
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Joan Vollmer : Say Bill, does the Oedipal Complex get reversed for fags?
William S. Burroughs : [pause] Well, speaking from personal experience, I never wanted to fuck my father.
Joan Vollmer : [chuckles]
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Joan Vollmer : And what does your young man make of the Mayans?
William S. Burroughs : Well I have yet to inquire about his preference in lost civilizations.
Joan Vollmer : Ah, but he must like ruins.
William S. Burroughs : [chuckles] Yes. He likes me tolerably enough.
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Allen Ginsberg : So. How are you?
Joan Vollmer : How am I? I live in a Mexican slum. My husband has run off with another man. And I've been too busy with my children to go down to the pharmacia and refill my dexetrina.
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William S. Burroughs : Are you leaving me?
Joan Vollmer : Should I?
William S. Burroughs : [long pause] As you like.
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Joan Vollmer : Didn't you two bone up on your wilderness lore down there in the jungle?
Lee : The jungle was fucking ghastly
Joan Vollmer : Uh, I don't understand, the jungle was ghastly or the fucking was ghastly... or both?
