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Tuesday, February 22, 2005

All Cut-Up

In undergrad I had a lit class where we did an exercise where we took passages and blacked out certain words, leaving others (whatever we chose) to create a new piece. The Cut-Up Method that Burroughs examines in his article, "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin" reminded me of this exercise. In that class we also had to keep a journal, and in that journal I took a Sarah MacLachlan song and chopped it up, putting it in my own order to create my own "song." Here I took the Rimbaud poem that Burroughs cut-up and did the same. I did leave out 2 words, 10 points if you can figure out which they are.

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