cutting up

First of all, there's more of the current chapter posted. If you want to read the chapter, "(At This Moment of) The World," from the beginning, you can go here. If you've read everything up to now, you can go here.

As I mentioned here, I bought a new domain when it seemed somebody might be buying this one. So, now I have a second domain, utownwriting.com.

Shame to let it go to waste, so now I'm going to use it. I set up a blog over there (also WordPress, of course, with a different theme), and I'm going to see to what extent the WordPress software can be modified to present actual fiction (which I don't want to do here, except for the few "deleted scenes" and so on, which are clearly labeled).

Meanwhile, I decided to post some of my favorite cut-ups over there, to start seeing how the site can work. I looked up "cut-ups" on wikipedia, to see what sort of description might be there (so I wouldn't have to write my own), and the page on "cut-ups" took me directly to "mash-ups," which is a similar idea, but for music (and which doesn't even mention that the practitioners of those styles might have got the idea from somewhere else).

I went to the page on William S. Burroughs, and that led me to "cut-up technique," which is about literary cut-ups, which is what these are.

I used to do these fairly regularly. I will post my ten favorite ones.

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