January 2012
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December 2011
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“…cut-ups make explicit a psychosensory process that is going on all the time anyway. Somebody is reading a newspaper, and his eye follows the column in the proper Aristotelian manner, one idea and sentence at a time. But subliminally he is reading the columns on either side and is aware of the person sitting next to him. That’s a cut-up. I was sitting in a lunchroom in New York having my doughnuts and coffee. I was thinking that one does feel a little boxed in in New York, like living in a series of boxes. I looked out the window and there was a great big Yale truck. That’s cut-up—a juxtaposition of what’s happening outside and what you’re thinking of. I make this a practice when I walk down the street. I’ll say, When I got to here I saw that sign, I was thinking this, and when I return to the house I’ll type these up. Some of this material I
use and some I don’t. I have literally thousands of pages of notes here, raw, and I keep a diary as well. In a sense it’s traveling in time.” —William Burroughs interview, Extracted from the 1966 interview by Conrad Knickerbocker in Paris Review; reprinted in Writers at Work, 3rd Series (New York, 1967). (via spooksbyme)
use and some I don’t. I have literally thousands of pages of notes here, raw, and I keep a diary as well. In a sense it’s traveling in time.” —William Burroughs interview, Extracted from the 1966 interview by Conrad Knickerbocker in Paris Review; reprinted in Writers at Work, 3rd Series (New York, 1967). (via spooksbyme)
