jack kerouac

[Bennett]

he worked with a lot of collages, i think he wanted to try to use collage in writing, as well as in painting. It's an interesting technique where you take a piece of writing, either from an outside source or something you yourself wrote, cut it into pieces and form a collage which will form an entirely new piece.

It's interesting, because as weird as it seems, the technique actually works, there's a good chance that it will produce a (somewhat) coherent work, because once you rewrite the collage, you find yourself adding in a "the" or other conjunction here and there, and it's kind of as if your subconscious takes over and makes it make sense.

I took the liberty of slicing a girls paper in one of my classes and using the cut-up to write a new piece. She wasn't to happy with the result or my criticism.

If you have to write a paper on Burroughs, you really should see the documentary I mentioned earlier if you haven't already. Problem is, it isn't very easy to find... check whatever "alternative" video stores might be in your area.

I hate that I only i-mock while I'm at work, I forget to look up stuff when I get home. I've got some good books and a coursepack from when I took a class on the beats. MUST REMEMBER... maybe I'll try and I-mock tonight.