Editing Brion Gysin (section)

===Early years===
'''John Clifford Brian Gysin''' was born at the Canadian military hospital in [[Taplow]], [[Buckinghamshire]], England.<ref name="Geiger">{{cite book |last=Geiger |first=John |title=Nothing Is True – Everything Is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin |publisher=The Disinformation Company |year=2005 |isbn=1-932857-12-5 |pages=130}}</ref> His mother, Stella Margaret Martin, was a Canadian from [[Deseronto, Ontario]]. His father, Leonard Gysin, a captain with the [[Canadian Expeditionary Force]], was killed in action eight months after his son's birth. Stella returned to Canada and settled in [[Edmonton]], Alberta where her son became "the only Catholic day-boy at an Anglican boarding school".<ref>Cf. John Geiger's biographical essay on Gysin titled 'Brion Gysin: His Life and Times' in ''Brion Gysin: Tuning into the Multimedia Age'', ed. José Férez Kuri (London: Thames & Hudson, 2003), p. 201</ref> Leaving that school at the age of fifteen, Gysin was sent next to [[Downside School]] in [[Stratton-on-the-Fosse]], near [[Bath, Somerset|Bath]] in England, a prestigious school for boys run by Benedictine monks. Despite attending both Anglican and Roman Catholic schools, Gysin was already an atheist when he left St Joseph's.<ref>{{cite book|title=Nothing Is True-Everything is Permitted: The Life of Brion Gysin|year=2005|publisher=Red Wheel/Weiser|isbn=9781609258719|page=5|author=John Geiger|quote=Brion's view of Creating soon changed. By age fifteen he was an avowed atheist attending St. Joseph's Catholic High School.}}<!--|access-date=1 May 2013--></ref>