Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso on William Burroughs continuing from here
AG: Well, no, Bill Morgan is here…
GC: Ted Morgan
AG: Ted Morgan
GC: But he wasn’t there. He don’t know shit!
AG: Ted Morgan is here, who has studied the subject. And so actually can remember and has in his head the chronology.
GC: But he doesn’t know.. he doesn’t know what went down when he (Burroughs) and I first met .
Ted Morgan: I do.
AG: Yes he does!
GC:(to Ted Morgan) What went down when I first met Bill?
Ted Morgan: (You found drugs were legal)
GC: No way! That’s late in life. That’s late in life, that’s in ‘the Sixties in Tangier.
AG (to GC) : First of all, you’re too close to the mic
GC: Eh pardon!
AG: And probably we should either have a hand mic, or perhaps Bill and Ted Morgan should come and sit up (front). We invited them before you came
GC: Alright
Ted and Bill Morgan join panel
AG (to GC) ..Offer them a chair..
GC (to Ted Morgan): Get there fucker. If you want it, take it!
AG; You might as well sit down on.. Come on, sit down on the throne. You don’t have to talk, (unless “the spirit moves you”).
GC: We’ve both got this shit..
to be continued
Audio for the above can be heard – here, beginning at approximately four-and-a-half minutes in and concluding at approximately six minutes in
Addenda: Gilbert Sorrentino‘s less-than-enthusiastic review of Morgan’s book in the November 13, 1988 New York Times can be read here