Monday, June 29, 2009

Interesting FYI: Cut-up method

Gleaned from the Wikipedia article.

The cut-up technique involves taking a perfectly coherent block of text and then cutting it up into pieces, with a few words or a phrase on each piece. The resulting pieces are then rearranged and re-formed to create new sentences and passages. It is a process stemming from the Surrealists in the 1920s. It was popularized by the writer William S. Burroughs in the 1950s and 1960s.

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