As you know WSB I believe got the basic ideas for his Cut -up technique from Bryon Gysin , an artist and transferred the technigue , in his own manner to doing writing cut ups . See Nova Express , I am sure ... parts of Naked Lunch etc.. He did this from what I can gather , to explore the unconcious and the ability for the " NOW " momment to create connections we ... perhaps didn't really see . I heard from Stephen Hawking that Richard Finemann ,
introduced the idea that " not one possible reality was possible but that , in the quantum state of affairs " all possible realities must be considered . " I think this is absolutely true in our lives - whether we know it or not .

Following this pattern of thought , I happened to write Izzy about some ideas I had to augment or add to the " Cut - up technigues " using a different approach . She suggested I put it down here , in this forum , so that we could all - check it out and DO the experiment . Ok . So here it is :

My Letter to her . / Hers will follow , promise !

" I needed to study the letter you wrote ( Izzy ) about writing being related to the Quantum reality or principals .This reminded me that , there was at least one language I knew of ... there may be more ,( Hebrew ) , which uses letters and numbers interchangably . This started me thinking of a process or an idea for an experiment using the following paramenters .

1 ) make a slection of (26) numbers out of , lets say (52) possible numbers . They must be chosen at random ... like the " I Ching " coin toss . It doesn't matter what random method you use really .
Ok , once this is done assign ... also at random the " Numbers " to the (26) Alphabet letters . Now we have 26 numbers each - by random choice - assined to 26 " Letters " .

As in automatic writing a person takes a WSB paragraph _ or whatever . The selected _ numbers are now put to the _letters ; in the paragragh you have chosen , are you with me . Good , he said hopefully . NOw the paragraph should not be recognizable ... right ? But does it possibly have other ideas brought out , that you didn't see at first ? This might prove quite interesting . Also
one can do the above idea in reverse and start with the ... random generator ... and see what the non- linear world is trying to tell you . I hope its ... fairly ah ... good !

This technigue also reminds me of " John Cage's " work , in indeterminacy . He wrote a entirely musical piece based on assigning (64) notes to the I Ching and spent the whole days throwing _ coins to get the notes ( not -determined ) for his musical piece . Its great by the way . So this - acausal approach using the above method may lead us into very interesting places as it allows non-linear conciousness the room to make manefest and not be disrupted by - concious thoughts .


This idea was one of the best " defining " tones of the " Beats " ... most of their work including very much of Burroughs , Keroauc and Allen Ginsberg was mostly made by getting in touch with the unconcious or - super -concious ... mind. This is whay their works are as potent today as the day they were written !