Through past research and my dissertation focus into Brion Gysin's discovery of the Cut Up technique, I have some substantial knowledge into the work and uses of this technique by William S. Burroughs.
The use of the cut up technique reforms and reimagines already existing text and purposeful placement of words, in turn making sense in part accidental rather than a writer purposefully stringing sentences together to create full and meaningful works of fiction and non fiction. By freeing the words it seems to open up new interpretation and ideas to enter and leak in. This use of an artists technique as a writer has formed a more free flowing way of writing, keeping the artists or writers personal involvement to a minimum through this act of chance.
