Lemurian Time War
Lemurian Time War presents a surreal, partially fictionalized account of William S. Burroughs’s involvement in a multidimensional occult conflict over time, magic, and reality. The narrative, drawn from supposed “insider” William Kaye, outlines Burroughs’s entanglement with an ancient pirate, Captain Mission, and their shared connection through a mysterious book: The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar.
Kaye claims this book—a hyperstitional artifact—magically links Burroughs and Mission across centuries, catalyzing a war against a metaphysical control system called the One God Universe (OGU). The OGU dominates reality through language and time-binding, suppressing magical and alternative realities. Burroughs, influenced by this time trauma in 1958, adopts cut-up and fold-in literary techniques as temporal sabotage—magical operations against the scripted “pre-recorded universe.”
The concept of hyperstition—fictions that make themselves real—frames the story, positioning Burroughs’s writing not as mere fiction, but as a weapon in a magical war. Lemurs, especially ghost-like ones in Madagascar, symbolize the wild, the free, and the timeless—opposed to the tethered, rational order of the OGU. Their world, **Western Lemuria**, becomes the site of resistance.
In 1987, Burroughs’s dreams and writing spiral toward “The Rift”—a time rupture where reality and fiction dissolve. The Board, a shadowy control organization, attempts to seal this breach by discrediting Burroughs, but his story The Ghost Lemurs of Madagascar reactivates the time war. The final battle is not just for narrative control, but for the ontology of time itself.