Burroughs: The Movie Page #2
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- 1983
- 90 min
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As I reach out to touch the flowers...
to Otto's boy...
who played the violin.
You had -
Otto was your gardener here even?
Yes, and he went with us
to Price Road.
I see. Did you know him a lot
when you were a little kid?
- Oh, yes.
All the time I was out talking
to him because, um...
you know, he was gardening there
and I was out looking at the flowers...
and I had my pet toad.
When I would be working...
he - he would come out and help me.
You know, he was - he was like this.
- But he would come out and -
- That's true, yeah.
try to help me, you know,
to have my work done.
And I had a boy...
and-and I-I got all
- How old is your son?
- Oh, he's dead now.
- He is -
- He died in '52.
He has been dead a long time.
He played the violin, I remember.
That's - That's right.
He can remember.
- He-He played -
- His name was Harold.
- Harold! He remembers.
Yes, his name was Harold.
As I recall in, uh, 1958, '59...
I wrote - when I was writing
Naked Lunch, I wrote a line:
to Otto's boy who played the violin."
Well, I had a sort of a premonition
at that point that he was dead...
in my next letter to Otto...
and he told me that, uh...
Harold had died in 1952,
St. Luke's Hospital.
He did not say from what cause.
Now we had
an old Irish crone living here...
working here for a while...
who taught me
how to call the toads.
And I could come out here
and call a toad.
There was a toad who lived
under a rock right by the pool...
and he'd come hopping out
right to my feet.
- Familiar.
- How was this toad called?
- I don't remember.
It was a little sound.
sort of a hum.
You'd sort of move around...
and then you'd zero in.
Now you've got the toad.
- There he is, and out he comes.
A lost art,
calling - calling the toads.
Yeah.
This porch was here.
Now one of the pictures
that we have...
of me and my brother together
in Western clothes...
was taken on that porch.
I'm sure that's Dad.
- Yeah.
- It looks just like him.
Well, I don't know who this is.
Do you know who this is?
Any idea?
It says "Mortimer Perry Burroughs."
So maybe it's Dad
when he was young.
Uh, yes, I think it probably is.
Weird.
of my father's side,
it gets very, very shady.
What kind of man was your father?
He was very mysterious, very reticent.
The only thing he told me was...
that he was beaten
if he ever went into his father's study...
or disturbed his father
while he was working.
That he had very little time
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