"How random is random?"-WSB

[jack_babalon]

Stolen from shar_katye. And well it's only 1/2 a year really, since I started up my LJ in June.

Take the 1st sentence from the 1st post of each month of 2004. Make paragraph. This is supposed to be what your year was like.

Hello. The ass crack of dawn. Full Moon lit up like a Chesire Cat smile, hanging dangerously low all over the world on the same Saturday night,teasing the towers of a hundred cities all rising and reaching with desperate sklyline fingers that fail to snatch it out of the pool of clouds to wear like a stolen ring. Autumn has arrived ahead of schedule, pacing along the wind across the last days of August and settling in on a Georgia September with a rinse of cold rains and a soft blanket of fog. I stood on the platform of Lindbergh station waving goodbye to my Father. I arrived at the Five points Station a little after 7 in the morning. The Kingdom of God is inside/within you (and all about you), not in buildings/mansions of wood and stone.


~ THE CUT-UP METHOD OF BRION GYSIN ~

At a surrealist rally in the 1920s Tristan Tzara the man from
nowhere proposed to create a poem on the spot by pulling words out
of a hat. A riot ensued wrecked the theater. Andre Breton expelled
Tristan Tzara from the movement and grounded the cut-ups on the
Freudian couch.

In the summer of 1959 Brion Gysin painter and writer cut
newspaper articles into sections and rearranged the sections at
random. "Minutes to Go" resulted from this initial cut-up experiment.
"Minutes to Go" contains unedited unchanged cut-ups emerging as
quite coherent and meaningful prose.

The cut-up method brings to writers the collage, which has been
used by painters for fifty years. And used by the moving and still
camera. In fact all street shots from movie or still cameras are by the
unpredicatble factors of passersby and juxtapositon cut-ups. And
photographers will tell you that often their best shots are accidents . .
. writers will tell you the same. The best writings seems to be done
almost by accident but writers until the cut-up method was made
explicit-all writing is in fact cut-ups; I will return to this point-had
no way to produce the accident of spontaneity. You cannot will
spontaneity. But you can introduce the unpredictable spontaneous
factor with a pair of scissors.
-WSB
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Tristan Tzara


Brion Gysin


William S Burroughs

Comments

[retrofatale.livejournal.com]

Even disjointed you're time on LJ is still interesting.