William S. Burroughs Hit & Miss

Have had a few days off and spent some of that time, whilst cleaning the house, listening to all those audio interviews and lectures that I had downloaded but hadn’t got around to.

One of the more bizarre ones was this offering from William S. Burroughs in which he explains the cut-up writing technique that he sometimes used (though it is thought to date back to the Dadaists) and some musicians such as David Bowie, Kurt Cobain and Thom Yorke have also used.

All well and good explaining this writing style and providing and reading interesting examples. The fact that he mixes this up with some bizarre flimflam about ethereal voices being heard on recordings makes it fascinating to see how he tries to walk the line of suggesting that these things are there but without seeming like a loon. 

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