{"id":16336,"date":"2015-02-04T02:53:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T01:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=16336"},"modified":"2024-04-09T13:07:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T12:07:22","slug":"birth-of-a-zimbu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/02\/04\/birth-of-a-zimbu\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of a Zimbu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinupsmag.com\/BirthOfAdetail1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zimbu1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zimbu1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Birth of a Zimbu<\/em> by Christopher Schulz is another addition to the growing collection of artworks based on William Burroughs&#8217; <em>The Wild Boys<\/em> (1971), in this case a 52-page collection of &#8220;visual reveries made from collaged parts of dated gay porn, ancient ruins, and other various unrelated sources.&#8221; The book costs $10 and may be previewed and ordered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinupsmag.com\/BirthOfAdetail1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinupsmag.com\/BirthOfAdetail1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"zimbu2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zimbu2.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Zimbus are Burroughs&#8217; solution to the problem of reproduction (or regeneration) among the Wild Boys, his army of eternal teenage boys at war with the world at large in a dystopian 1988. Warfare means casualties so in order to maintain their homosocial, homoerotic tribal existence they gather at special times to perform sex-magic rituals that summon the &#8220;Zimbu&#8221; spirit forms of dead Wild Boys. The Zimbus are incarnated as new Wild Boys after being inseminated and fully materialised.<\/p>\n<p>Burroughs wasn&#8217;t short on fantastic concepts but his ideas are often delivered and dismissed in a few lines. By contrast, the creation of the Zimbus is given pages of detailed description, the separatist, semi-human world of the Wild Boys being one to which he devoted a great deal of imaginative attention. I&#8217;ve linked before to Phil Hine&#8217;s essay,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philhine.org.uk\/writings\/flsh_zimbu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Zimbu Xototl Time<\/em><\/a>, which examines the Zimbu idea at some length, drawing comparisons to similar ideas in anthropology and other fiction. If I ever get round to finished the long-gestating <em>Wild Boys<\/em> portfolio I may be able to show some Zimbu manifestations of my own.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-william-burroughs-archive\/\">The William Burroughs archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birth of a Zimbu by Christopher Schulz is another addition to the growing collection of artworks based on William Burroughs&#8217; The Wild Boys (1971), in this case a 52-page collection of &#8220;visual reveries made from collaged parts of dated gay porn, ancient ruins, and other various unrelated sources.&#8221; The book costs $10 and may be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/02\/04\/birth-of-a-zimbu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Birth of a Zimbu&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42,28,1029,5],"tags":[6978,2997,6261,519,1190],"class_list":["post-16336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","category-burroughs","category-collage","category-gay","tag-christopher-schulz","tag-phil-hine","tag-the-wild-boys","tag-wild-boys","tag-william-burroughs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4fu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}