Talk:Ian Sommerville (disambiguation)

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The British academic and author, Professor Ian F. Sommerville, is, I think, generally known as Ian Sommerville, but there were a number of redlinks pointing to a non-existent article "Ian Sommerville". I therefore created this disambiguation page. The second Ian Sommerville appears to be associated with the Beat Generation (though not actually a member), possibly with Bryon Gysin and one of the "William Seward Burroughs"s (senior?, junior?). As far as I know, the second Ian Sommerville is not notable enough to get his own article, so I am going to change the links to point to this disambiguation page, though I am not very happy about it. I didn't want to remove several links, even redlinks. I would point the second Ian Sommerville to another article if I were sure about the facts. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable has a better idea or feels bold enough to remove the links to the dab page completely or create a new article on "Ian Sommerville (???)". I believe there are also some other people called "Ian Sommerville" who might have claim to notability.--Boson 22:00, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Information on Ian Sommerville associated with the Beat Generation

The most detailled and credible information I could find on this Sommerville was at http://www.10111.org/0.php?wakka=IanSommerville, but I didn't think it was sufficiently verified to write an article, though notability could be argued.
Unverified information from a number of sources:
Born in 1940. Died in road accident (in or near Bath, England?), in 1976.
Studied mathematics at Cambridge University.
Possibly co-inventor of the Dreamachine.
--Boson 22:28, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

hello! Some sources about Sommerville are found on "the Third Mind", by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Sommerville also wrote some articles about the dreamachine("flicker", publ. by olympia press), and contributed with texts on "let the mice in" by Gysin. Regarding the date of his death, this comes from "Chapel of extreme experience" by John Geiger. EDIT: he contributed for sure to the dreamachine, as stated at every occasion in Gysin's and Burroughs' books. Elamita 12:19, 15 January 2007 (UTC)