Editing Brion Gysin (section)

==Death==
On 13 July 1986 Brion Gysin died of lung cancer. Anne Cumming arranged his funeral and for his ashes to be scattered at the [[Caves of Hercules]] in Morocco.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://ebsn.eu/scholarship/interviews/felicity-masonanne-cumming-a-brief-biography-and-interview-jennie-skerl/|title=Felicity Mason/Anne Cumming – A Brief Biography and Interview – Jennie Skerl|date=16 October 2012|work=[[European Beat Studies Network]]|access-date=12 April 2017}}</ref> An obituary by Robert Palmer published in ''[[The New York Times]]'' described him as a man who "threw off the sort of ideas that ordinary artists would parlay into a lifetime career, great clumps of ideas, as casually as a locomotive throws off sparks".<ref>Cf. John Geiger, 'Brion Gysin: His Life and Times' in ''Brion Gysin: Tuning into the Multimedia Age'', p. 227.</ref> Later that year a heavily edited version of his novel, ''The Last Museum'', was published posthumously by [[Faber & Faber]] (London) and by [[Grove Press]] (New York).

As a joke, Gysin had contributed a recipe for [[cannabis (drug)|marijuana]] fudge to a cookbook by [[Alice B. Toklas]]; it was included for publication, becoming famous under the name [[Alice B. Toklas brownie]]s.<ref>Biographer John Geiger writes that Gysin's restaurant, ''The 1001 Nights'' provided him "with an entrée into Tangiers society. His Moroccan culinary delights even merited an entry in Alice B. Toklas's famous cookbook, with a recipe for hashish fudge. Toklas, however, had no idea what the mysterious ingredient – cannabis – was, protesting later 'of course I didn't know the Latin name'." Cf. John Geiger, 'Brion Gysin: His Life and Times' in ''Brion Gysin: Tuning into the Multimedia Age'', p. 213.</ref>