The Cut-Up Machine

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In light of our musings on language, I thought it would be interesting to pass on this link -- a virtual text cut-up machine:

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/gary.leeming/burroughs/cutup_machine.htm

I'm not too familiar with William S. Burroughs, but I had heard of his technique... it's really quite fascinating. Feeding my own writing in, I find new levels of hidden meanings and interpretation, "between the lines"...

-- Inu (paul@nadisrec.com), October 21, 2003

Answers

Just for fun, I gave it an old post of Peter's. Here's the result:

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-- Inu (paul@nadisrec.com), October 21, 2003.


Cool!

-- Sam (janecherrington@paradise.net.nz), October 21, 2003.

Interesting. I wonder if with training, in future we will understand paragraphs in whole - just as we read words as a single thing: maeing taht ti is psoslbie to swcamrlbe ltrtets and slitl get the maineng if the fsirt and lsat are the uausl oens.

-- Eduardo (ecmauro.ii@terra.com.br), November 07, 2003.

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