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Chapter 3 - ‘Paper Reality’: William S. Burroughs and the Cut-Up Method

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2019

Rob Turner
Rob Turner
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University of Exeter
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Summary

What you call ‘reality’ is a complex network of necessity formulae.. association lines of word and image presenting a prerecorded word and image track. How do you know ‘real’ events are taking place right where you are sitting now? You will read it tomorrow in the windy morning ‘NEWS’ …

Twister in:

Primrose, Nebraska … Tornado dead 223 … Street crowds in Baghdad rising from the typewriter … Mr Martin smiles … The Morning Maya … paper reality … photo bodies … William S. Burroughs, ‘Introductions’ (1979)

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Counterfeit Culture
Truth and Authenticity in the American Prose Epic since 1960
 , pp. 78 - 109
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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