Just with Kerouac and his girlfriend at the time, Edie Parker, William Burroughs went to live in 1944. With them, even Joan Vollmer Adams, divorced mother of a Marine and a daughter, Julie Adams. Together formed one of the historical examples of extended families of the people beat: they spend evenings chatting about art and poetry, by spacing the words frequent incursions into the territories aliens evoked by the drug. While Joan Vollmer sharpened his addiction to amphetamine and Benzedrine, Burroughs kept afloat with morphine, peddling heroin in Greenwich Village. With Kerouac was embroiled in a murder story of all accrued in the beatnik era: after he killed David Kammerer, Lucien Carr got rid of the corpse by throwing it in the murky waters of the companion of the Hudson River, then go to confession first and then be Burroughs to Kerouac. The police arrested all three. Cleared, Burroughs and Kerouac tried to pull the strings of the event in a film noir ever published, And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks (1945), who later Burroughs himself would have described as "not exactly a work worthy of note. "Arrested in 1946 for possession of drugs without a prescription, Burroughs was sentenced to four months imprisonment and the temporary suspension of the sentence allowed him to escape by returning to St. Louis. He decided groped detoxification in Lexington, Kentucky. In the meantime, Joan Vollmer was hospitalized in the throes of a state of acute amphetamine psychosis: Burroughs reacted impulsively, kidnapped her and fled with the first in Texas, where their reaction - eventually sanctioned by marriage - was born in 1947, William S. Burroughs Jr., and then to New Orleans. The reunification with Neal Cassady and Jack Kerouac in the city of jazz is immortalized in some of the most intense worship of the novel On the Road 2 , where William Burroughs appears as Old Bull Lee. To avoid further problems with the law for a failed attempt to trade in marijuana, were forced to interrupt the stay at the mouth of the Mississippi, and fled to Messico.E in Mexico City, in one of the periods more turbulent hypertrophic expansion of the metropolis, the tragedy. Tequila and bullets at the time the items were easily found on the streets. Their concentration was at the origin of a chaotic state in continual oscillation between opposite peaks of euphoria and violence, and legitimate record of Burroughs that "murder is Mexico's national neurosis." The days unfold distressing for him, including drugs, alcohol, at least special friendships and street children. Until, one evening, in a dramatic parody of the famous challenge of William Tell, shot his wife in his response to a provocation. It was 1951 and Joan died at age 27, leaving behind a life of excess and two bambini.Burroughs would sell its 380 Star that evening, if Joan had not challenged with a crystal glass balanced on his head, replacing the historic apple. Burroughs he served 13 days in jail before a withdrawal does not induce the judge to get off the hook new, credible his version of events and setting the security in 2312 dollari.La mother Joan, who would take care of the little Julie, would soon confessed his hope that Bill Burrou
ghs rot in hell. She could not know that the old bull, hell, we already spent his days.
ghs rot in hell. She could not know that the old bull, hell, we already spent his days.
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