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Let me now put aside biological questions and return to human adaptivity and its implications for the laws of psychology. A look at computer adaptivity may cast some light on the human kind. A computer, it is said, can only do what it is programmed to...
- Qualitative Comments (3c-e; 3,5-dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine)
(with 40 mg) It developed into a strange and indefinable something. It is unworldly. I am very much in control, but with an undertone of unreality that is a little reminiscent of high doses of LSD. If there were a great deal of sensory input, I might...
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In the Electronic Revolution I advance the theory that a virus IS a very small unit of word and image. I have suggested now such units can be biologically activated to act as communicable virus strains. Let us start with three tape recorders in The Garden...
- Quick Fix
Esta merecia ser mais conhecida. To put it country simple, Earth has a lot of things other folks might want — Like the whole planet, And maybe these folks would like a few changes made, Like more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — And room for their...
- Becket T Ices [c]
«What when words gone? None for what then. But say by way of somehow on somehow with sight to do. With less of sight. Still dim and yet. No. Nohow so on. Say better worse words gone when nohow on. Still dim and nohow on. All seen and nohow on. What words...
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INTERVIEWER: What do cut-ups offer the reader that conventional narrative doesn't?
BURROUGHS: Any narrative passage or any passage, say, of poetic images s subject to any number of variations, all of which may be interesting and valid in their own right. A page of Rimbaud cut up and rearranged will give you quite new images. Rimbaud images — real Rimbaud images — but new ones.
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INTERVIEWER: Instead of going to the trouble of working with scissors and all those pieces of paper, couldn't you obtain the same effect by simply free-associating at the typewriter?
BURROUGHS: One's mind can't cover it that way. Now,for example, if I wanted to make a cut-up of this [picking up a copy of the Nation], there are many ways I could do it. I could read cross column; I could say: "Today's men's nerves surround us. Each technological extension gone outside is electrical involves an act of collective environment. The human nervous environment system itself can be reprogrammed with all its private and social values because it is content. He programs logically as readily as any radio net is swallowed by the new environment. The sensory order." You find it often makes quite as much sense as the original. You learn to leave out words and to make connections. [Gesturing] Suppose I should cut this down the middle here, and put this up here. Your mind simply could not manage it. It's like trying to keep so many chess moves in mind, you just couldn't do it. The mental mechanisms of repression and selection are also operating against you.
BURROUGHS: Any narrative passage or any passage, say, of poetic images s subject to any number of variations, all of which may be interesting and valid in their own right. A page of Rimbaud cut up and rearranged will give you quite new images. Rimbaud images — real Rimbaud images — but new ones.
(...)
INTERVIEWER: Instead of going to the trouble of working with scissors and all those pieces of paper, couldn't you obtain the same effect by simply free-associating at the typewriter?
BURROUGHS: One's mind can't cover it that way. Now,for example, if I wanted to make a cut-up of this [picking up a copy of the Nation], there are many ways I could do it. I could read cross column; I could say: "Today's men's nerves surround us. Each technological extension gone outside is electrical involves an act of collective environment. The human nervous environment system itself can be reprogrammed with all its private and social values because it is content. He programs logically as readily as any radio net is swallowed by the new environment. The sensory order." You find it often makes quite as much sense as the original. You learn to leave out words and to make connections. [Gesturing] Suppose I should cut this down the middle here, and put this up here. Your mind simply could not manage it. It's like trying to keep so many chess moves in mind, you just couldn't do it. The mental mechanisms of repression and selection are also operating against you.
Extracto de uma entrevista com William.S. Burroughs publicada em
Writers at Work, 3rd Series: The "Paris Review" Interviews;
Penguin, 1978.
Writers at Work, 3rd Series: The "Paris Review" Interviews;
Penguin, 1978.
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Let me now put aside biological questions and return to human adaptivity and its implications for the laws of psychology. A look at computer adaptivity may cast some light on the human kind. A computer, it is said, can only do what it is programmed to...
- Qualitative Comments (3c-e; 3,5-dimethoxy-4-ethoxyamphetamine)
(with 40 mg) It developed into a strange and indefinable something. It is unworldly. I am very much in control, but with an undertone of unreality that is a little reminiscent of high doses of LSD. If there were a great deal of sensory input, I might...
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In the Electronic Revolution I advance the theory that a virus IS a very small unit of word and image. I have suggested now such units can be biologically activated to act as communicable virus strains. Let us start with three tape recorders in The Garden...
- Quick Fix
Esta merecia ser mais conhecida. To put it country simple, Earth has a lot of things other folks might want — Like the whole planet, And maybe these folks would like a few changes made, Like more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere — And room for their...
- Becket T Ices [c]
«What when words gone? None for what then. But say by way of somehow on somehow with sight to do. With less of sight. Still dim and yet. No. Nohow so on. Say better worse words gone when nohow on. Still dim and nohow on. All seen and nohow on. What words...