Rapid Eye, Issue 1, Revised Edition, 1993

Includes an interview “Dead Fingers Talk” with William Burroughs by V. Vale. 

Burroughs also contributes “The Fall of Art”, pp. 1-5; “And His Name Was Rover”, pp. 158-159; “The Johnson Family”, pp. 170-173; “A Thanksgiving Prayer”, p. 479.

Burroughs' painting "Spermatozoa Color" from 1987 is reproduced at the page prior to page 1. Burroughs' painting "Curse of the Red Seal" from 1987 is reproduced at page 4.

Published in London, England by Annihilation Press in 1993.

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf II.249 [for the original 1989 edition]
• Not in Schottlaender (v4)
• Raven 19930000REYE.0.1, b16

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