The Cut Up Method * William Burroughs

all

writing

is

in

fact

cut

ups

of

games

and

economic

behavior

overhead?

what

else?

assume

that

the

worst

has

happened

explicit

and

subject

to

strategy

is

at

some

point

classical

prose.

cutting

and

rearranging

factor

your

opponent

will

gain

introduces

a

new

dimension

your

strategy.

how

many

discoveries

sound

to

kinesthetic?

we

can

now

produce

accident

to

his

color

of

vowels.

and

new

dimension

to

films

cut

the

senses.

the

place

of

sand.

gambling

scenes

all

times

color

tasting

sounds

smell

streets

of

the

world.

when

you

can

have

the

bet

all:

poetry

is

for

everyone

doctor

neuman

in

a

collage

of

words

read

heard

introduced

the

cut

ups

scissors

renders

the

process

game

and

military

strategy,

variation

clear

and

act

accordingly.

if

you

posed

entirely

of

rearranged

cut

determined

by

random

a

page

of

written

words

no

advantage

from

knowing

into

writer

predict

the

move.

the

cut

variation

images

shift

sense

advantage

in

processing

to

sound

sight

to

sound.

have

been

made

by

accident

is

where

rimbaud

was

going

with

order

the

cut

ups

could

systematic

derangement

of

the

gambling

scene

in

with

a

tea

hallucination:

seeing

and

places.

cut

back.

cut

forms.

rearrange

the

word

and

image

to

other

fields

than

writing.