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Light turned on in brain, dim, but its on. Just waiting till the fuse breaks again... Reading Burroughs last night I was able to understand the cut-up technique that he uses. There was a passage that was intact, usual prose, easy to read. And it helped me to understand. The following text was a cut-up of that passage. Mostly the same words. Cut-up is very interesting, makes me think more about the writing, introduces different mixed up ideas. Seems to yield a strategy that is unknown in the beginning: What will the same words cut-up and pasted together again reveal? I like the idea that an author that uses this technique could end up with something startling, or just something weird and hard to read. But now I understand that Burroughs isn't just writing out words that don't necessarily seem to go together, he's fishbowling. When I first read cut-up I thought, what the hell is he writing about, this shit don't go together... But now i think its kind of interesting

Is it possible to get past rectal mucus? We get stuck in the goo of it, think its gross, can't get past it. But what is Burroughs trying to say? is there more behind the graphic butt-sex? Someone must have thought his text was pretty good, it has been published... And the reviews on the back of the book are positive. Playboy liked it...