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i keep forgetting to psot this, but finally remmebred!

what do we all make of Ploog's cut-up book as hosted by this very website?

i can't praise it enough. It's come along at just the right time for me. Just when i'd abandoned all thought or prospect about cut-ups/Burroughsian practices in my own 'writing' (i use that term loosely *lolz) along comes an inspirational and sexy work like this one

thank you, RealityStudio! and thank you Mr Ploog

You're very welcome. And don't forget about Carl Weissner's book-length text, Death in Paris:

http://realitystudio.org/publications/death-in-paris/

Jurgen Ploog on Burroughs & 'Naked Lunch'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5QHMLPYWu8

Thanks for posting that, Johnny. Very interesting. The funny thing is, I always derided the cut-up as parlor trick rubbish, but when I was writing my own book, which I am just finishing the final reading-through of this week for publication, I reached for...

...the cut-up method.

I knew of no other wordway to juxtapose thought and sound and fury and sight and chaos convincingly, if indeed such a thing is even possible. I don't know how it turned out, but I guess I'll find out eventually.

Cut Up or Shut Up

Jan Herman, Jürgen Ploog, and Carl Weissner, with a “tickertape” introduction by William S. Burroughs
Cut Up or Shut Up
Dustjacket
Agentzia, Paris
1972

Dustjacket (by Wolf Vostell) published with 100 numbered copies of the book, of which 26 were signed by the authors.

http://realitystudio.org/bibliographic- ... as-writer/

sounds interesting!! be sure to let us know how it develops!