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Description	Opening of William S. Burroughs's short story Ali's Smile
Source	Vaudeville Voices, released by Grey Matter; "Originally recorded in London in 1970. Released in October 1971 on a one-sided LP with accompanying book in an edition of 99 copies by Unicorn Press, Brighton."^[1]
Date	1993 (album); 1970 (recording); 1971 (first release)
Author	William S. Burroughs (1914-97)
Permission (Reusing this file)	See below.

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Description	Opening of William S. Burroughs's short story Ali's Smile
Source	Vaudeville Voices, released by Grey Matter; "Originally recorded in London in 1970. Released in October 1971 on a one-sided LP with accompanying book in an edition of 99 copies by Unicorn Press, Brighton."^[2]
Article	Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology
Portion used	The first 2 minutes of a 21 minute recording are used. This is less than 10 percent of the recording. Moreover, this recording has been used in lieu of any quotation from the text in the article. Therefore, extreme care has been taken to restrict the amount of non-free material used in the article.
Low resolution?	This file was encoded at a lower quality than that of the original.
Purpose of use	Burroughs, a Beat writer specifically released this recording along with the printed version of the book as part of his multimedia experiments. He is known for these and part of Burroughs's artistic explorations at the time was to experiment with the power of recordings.^[3]^[4] This recording is, therefore, part of the original work and this clip allows Wikipedia to present part of it to the reader.
Replaceable?	As a recording of the text spoken by the original author, who died in 1997, this is irreplaceable.
Other information	Use of this recording in the above article complies with Wikipedia non-free content policy and fair use under United States copyright law as described above.
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