Try This

by novalark

Posted to Utterances on 2002-06-22 11:20:00

Parent message is 214853
There are no “failed attempts” as it were. The whole process is experimental. I suggest you get Burroughs’ book The Ticket That Exploded. It demonstrates the cut up extremely well. Also try this http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/burroughs/cutup_machine.htm

I’ve had good results with it. Keep an open mind. Look for different meanings, non linear meanings.

“The cut-up is actually closer to the facts of perception than representational painting. Take a walk down a city street and put down what you have just seen on canvas. You have seen a person cut in two by a car, bits and pieces of street signs and advertisements, reflections from shop windows a montage of fragments.
Writing is still confined to the representational straitjacket of the novel … consciousness is a cut up. Every time you walk down the street or look out of the window, your stream of consciousness is cut by random factors.”

-Burroughs