I was obliquely referencing Hugo Ball and other Dadaists, who performed
simultaneist and phonetic verse in Zurich's Cabaret Voltaire. Brion Gysin,
whose father was Swiss, shared innovative formal possibilities he had
gleaned in Europe with William S. Burroughs. The range and invention of
both BG & WSB make figures like Henry Taylor and Donald Justice seem very
minor, even when they surprisingly try out chance methods. You can read
WSB's essay "The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin" here:
http://www.ubu.com/papers/burroughs_gysin.html
Barry Alpert
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:43:58 +0100, Lynda Nash <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
>Wasn't there a famous writer thatused to cut their work up, throw it in
>the air and then reassemble it - or have I been dreaming?
>
>I think I might try this method myself next!
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