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“The poets are supposed to liberate the words – not chain them in phrases. Who told the poets they were supposed to think? Poets are meant to sing and to make words sing. Writers don't own their words. Since when do words belong to anybody? 'Your very own words,' indeed! And who are you?”

Remembering Brion Gysin on his birthday.

(Photo by Peter Hujar.)

#three #novemberbythenumbers This book contains interviews and examples of the cut-up technique that Burroughs and Gysin experimented with.Gysin was a painter and felt writing was 50 years behind painting,With cut-up, you use scissors and paste and reassemble sentence fragments to reveal totally new meanings .Especially esoteric if they are scattered and picked up randomly.