Terry Wilson's "'D' Train" (1985)

London, England: Grapheme Publications (book, blurb), 1985.
8.75" x 5.625" x 0.75", 153 pages, hardcover with dust jacket, ISBN 0-946459-03-7.

'D' Train by Terry Wilson, as published in hardcover by Grapheme Publications (London, England) in 1985. Cover photograph of Terry Wilson by David de Lara. This is a book highly inspired by Brion Gysin, on whom the character "Bedaya" is modeled.  

William S. Burroughs supplies a long blurb to the rear dust jacket panel: 

"'D' TRAIN routes the reader through the reader through the Land of the Dead. In this perilous passage, the only one a man can trust, the only one who can guide him through the Land of the Dead, is his Ka, his Psychic Double. And the Ka needs the man as much as the man needs his Ka. A tragic impasse blocks all but a very few from the Ka.

"'D' TRAIN is a significant and timely book since it expresses this basic spiritual alienation in modern terms.

"It isn't forgone like salvation. It's a desperate quest for psychic integration.

"'D' TRAIN is a book concerned with spiritual basics. Young boys need it special. They may even listen."

There is a second, small blurb by Burroughs at the rear dust jacket flap for Here To Go: Planet R-101: "A great interview."

This copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books.

Shoaf II.206.

Contents: 

• Special Intentions (The Book Called 'D' Train):
• I: Whelme:
• 'Time Lines'
• 'Who Is It?'
• 'Dead Ahead'
• 'Killing/Feeding'
• 'Mental Age'
• 'Face Unafraid'
• II. Vogue:
• 'Sacred Heart' – The Dreamed-Of
• 'The Limitation of Time'
• 'Crossing the Border'
• 'We Want to Live' – The Human Form
• 'Ahead, Warily'
• 'Rivers in the Desert'
• 'Points of Interest (Proceeding in a Forward Direction)'
• 'The Journey Is – '
• 'In and Out'
• 'A World of Sensation (In the Same Time)'
• 'Smoking into New Worlds'
• 'Back in my Heart Again'
• The Journey Is:
• I: Here To Go:
• 'Dimanche'
• 'Who Are They? (Time after Time)'
• 'Through Time Lines'
• II: The Acuity of Vogue:
• 'Face of the Blackout'
• 'It's Time (Simply a Dream)'
• 'Special Colours'
• 'Why Do You Take Me to Bars?'
• 'Love In That World'
• Sons of Time:
• I. Over the Bardo:
• 'New Year'
• 'Beginning to Learn'
• II. Way by Themselves in a Lifetime:
• 'Into the Kingdom'