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THE PRIEST TEE - WHITE

THE PRIEST TEE - WHITE

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William S. Burroughs was an American writer and visual artist. Burroughs was a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. 

 

In 1993 he and Kurt Cobain collaborated on a 10" picture disc entitled 'The "priest" They Called Him.  On the piece, Cobain provides noisy, discordant guitar backing based on "Silent Night" and "To Anacreon in Heaven" to Burroughs' deadpan reading.

 

This short piece read was first published in Exterminator! The titular "Priest" is the protagonist, an otherwise nameless heroin addict trying to score on Christmas Eve. After selling a leather suitcase filled with a pair of severed legs (and subsequently visiting the ubiquitous crooked doctor), the Priest returns to a boarding house with a fix. While preparing, the Priest is interrupted by muffled moans from the next room. He knocks and finds a crippled Mexican boy in the throes of agonizing withdrawal. After giving the boy his drugs as an act of charity, the Priest returns to his room, reclines on his bed and dies, in what Burroughs calls "the immaculate fix." Another reading of this piece was also used in The Junky's Christmas, a short animated film in 1990.

 

Soft hand plastisol print.  100% combed ring spun cotton, 5.5 ounces, side seamed jersey fabric, tightly knit, soft washed tee. Branded interior woven label. 

 

 

 

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