Letter from Brion Gysin to Roger Knoebber, 23 February, 1963




Paris, France: Brion Gysin (letter), 1963.
letter: 10.5" x 8.25", one page, single-sided, water-damaged.
envelope: 4.5" x 6", water-damaged.
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A letter from Brion Gysin at the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Gît-le-Cœur, Paris to Roger Knoebber in San Francisco, California.

This reads:

9 rue Git le Coeur, Paris 6
23.2.63

Dear Roger,

Thanks for your letters and reminders but Ian [Sommerville] and I have been really busy – 9 AM to 1 AM on Dreamachines and it looks as though things might be picking up.

But, until I am out of this dying hotel I won’t feel I’m out of the woods.

Glad to hear you’re connected up in [San Francisco] and that you find Larbi and John, such a gas. Say hello for me in the warmest way.

Nobody has any fun in Paris. Is it different where you are? I long to get back over there with the product – Dreamachines, Permutations, etc. I have a group thing going with some French poets called Domaine Poétique. May take it to London where I figure on going myself this week.

To London & back, it was a gas! We’ll do a Machine Poets evening on March 28 at the Institute of Contemporary Art over there.

Dreamachine business gets lots of publicity. I've got a packful of clippings but don’t know how to turn them green. The hotel is pretty dead & ghostly but they’ve lowered the rent! I still owe Mme. Rachou a packet.

Send news love,
Brion


Notes:

"Larbi and John": Mohamed Larbi Scally, a former lover from Tangier, and John Cook, mystic.

"Mme Rachou": The proprietor of the Beat Hotel, Paris.

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