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The Last Words of Dutch Schultz is a closet screenplay by Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs, first published in 1970.. Based upon the life (or, to be more precise, the death) of 1930s German-Jewish-American gangster Dutch Schultz, the novel uses as its springboard Schultz's surreal last words, which were delivered in the midst of high-fever delirium after being mortally shot while ...
- William S Burroughs
- 81 pp
- 1970
- 1970
Statements made by Arthur Flegenheimer (Dutch Schultz) were taken down by a Newark police stenographer, F. J. Lang. The notes covered a period from about 4 o'clock Thursday afternoon until Schultz died. During that period he was delirious most of the time, but lucid at intervals. A transcript of all he said follows:
Oct 8, 2020 · The Strange Poetry of a Notorious Gangster's Last Words. In 1935, Dutch Schultz was shot in a Newark steakhouse. His deathbed monologue would inspire an unusual literary legacy. The mobster Dutch Schultz died eighty-five years ago this month after a pair of Murder, Inc gunmen shot him in the bathroom of a Newark, New Jersey chop house that ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · Dutch Schultz's Last Words. As he lay dying from bullet wounds on a hospital bed, Schultz uttered strange thoughts that were incomprehensible to the police who were hoping to get information from him.
Dutch was shot at 10:20 p.m., October 23, 1935. He died twenty hours later. A police stenographer at his bedside took down everything Dutch said, about 1200 words. The last words of Dutch Schultz ...
Schultz's last words have inspired a number of writers to devote works related to them. Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs published a screenplay in novel form titled The Last Words of Dutch Schultz in the early 1970s, while Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson connected Schultz's words to a global Illuminati -related conspiracy ...
The Last Words Of Dutch Schultz is more accessible than much of Burroughs work, and it would make a fine film. But those two thousand delirious last words and the darkly humorous, ironic, fevered nightmare that Burroughs wove from them belies his denial.
