Rapid Eye, Issue 1, Revised Edition, 1993

 

Includes "His Name Was Master (Brion Gysin – In Memory)" by Genesis P-Orridge, pp. 471-477, a history of and memorial to Gysin, including a photograph of Gysin and a reproduction of his art. 

Burroughs' essay "The Fall of Art", pp. 1-3, also mentions Gysin.

Published in London, England by Annihilation Press in 1993.

Selected Contents: 

• Cecil Beaton: "Aldous Huxley" (photograph)
• Andy Warhol: drawing
• Dr. Simon Ashton: "Introduction to the Revised and Expanded Edition of Rapid Eye One: Dreams: Interpretation, Appearance and Reality" (introduction)
• Simon Dwyer: 
• introduction
• "From Atavism to Zyklon B.: Genesis P-Orridge and the Temple of Psychic Youth (From A to Z and back again)" (essay)
• "A Revolutionary Suicide" (essay)
• "'Brazil'" (essay)
• William S. Burroughs:
• "Spermatozoa Color" (painting, 1987)
• "The Fall of Art" (essay)
• "And His Name Was Rover" (prose)
• "The Johnson Family" (essay/prose)
• "A Thanksgiving Prayer" (prose)
• COUM: 
• "Prostitution" (poster for the ICA, London)
• performance view
• Vale: "Genesis and Paul at Manson's Spahn Ranch, California, 1982" (photograph)
• Steve McNicholas: "P-P-P-P-Orridge!" (photograph)
• Zbigniew Szydko: photo of Caresse P-Orridge
• R. C. McNeiff: "Sybarite among the Shadows" (essay)
• Kathleen McAuliffe: "The Black Box" (essay)
• Eileen Shepperd: "Dance Ritual" (essay)
• Jack Huunter: "Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome" (essay)
• John C. Taylor: "Because and Cosmos" (essay)
• Mark Downham: "The Videodrome – The Thing in Room 101" (essay)
• Pat Hollis and Hubert Selby Jr.: "Words from a Room: Interview with Hubert Selby Jr." (interview)
• Vale and William S. Burroughs: "Dead Fingers Talk: The William S. Burroughs Interview" (interview)
• Antony Balch: "William, rue Gît-le-Cœur" (photograph)
• Pete Scott: "Neoism" (essay)
• Monty Cantsin: "Another Introduction to Neoism" (essay)
• Austin Osman Spare: drawings
• Genesis P-Orridge: 
• "Time Mirrors: The Art of Austin Osman Spare 1888-1956" (essay)
• "His Name Was Master (Brion Gysin – In Memory)" (essay)
• Ian Blake: "The Undying Monster" (essay)
• Kathy Acker: "I Become a Murderess" (prose)
• Sahajanath: "Tantra: An Introduction" (essay)
• John Helmer: "'Attitude'" (essay)
• Sandy Robertson: "Montague Summers: With Reverence to the Reverend" (essay)
• Simon Dwyer and Derek Jarman: "Through a Screen, Darkly: The Derek Jarman Interview" (interview)
• Gerald Incandela: "Caravaggio" (photograph)
• Bridget Holm: "The Tempest" (photograph)
• Nick Toczek: "The Gemstone File" (essay)
• Ian Blake: "Slaughter by Starlight: The Strange Case of the Animal Mutilators" (essay)
• Kenneth Rayner Johnson: "The Secret Language of Alchemy" (essay)
• Christopher Mayhew: "Mescalin, Mysticism, and an Excursion out of Time" (essay)
• Michael Timothy: "The Anti-Intellectual Ethic" (essay)
• Pete Kennard: "Jerusalem?" (photomontage)
• Colin Wilson, "Sex, Crime, and the 'Occult'" (essay)
• Charles Manson: "Helter Skelter" (testimony)
• Nancy MacKenzie: "Two Dragons Playing with a Pearl" (essay)
• Simon Dwyer and Mr. Sebastian: "Bodyshocks: The Mr. Sebastian Interview" (interview)
• Brion Gysin: 
• "Peggy Guggenheim's Window on The Grand Canal, Venezia, Italy" (painting, 1962)
• self-portrait in Greece, 1935
• Derek Jarman: "The Garden" (poetry)

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Simon Dwyer
• Design, Layout, and Typesetting: Simon Dwyer
• Logo Design: Hugh Davies
• Cover Design: Simon Dwyer