Tuesday, February 27, 2007

William S. Burroughs Reading

After reading the reading, my opinion about the cut up technique is that I don't really like it. I feel like all it does is jumble up words so that is doesn't really make any sense. I don't think that it should be compared to an artist's collage at all. This is because I feel a collage is something you visually look at, and normally all of the cut up images are put together with some type of common theme that makes sense. Cutting up words and phrases and pasting them together I feel is nothing like that. The randomness of it also makes it less comphrensive when it is done. The examples of cut ups that are in the reading are not appealing to me at all. The finished product just seems like a mess to me, like it is butchering the English language. I personally just dont like it. My question is what do people who actually like this "cut up method" find appealing about it?

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