Tristan Tzara said: “Poetry is for everyone.” (…) Cut-ups are for everyone. Anybody can make cut ups. It is experimental in the sense of being something to do. Right here write now. Not something to talk and argue about. Greek philosophers assumed logically that an object twice as heavy as another object would fall twice as fast. It did not occur to them to push the two objects off the table and see how they fall. Cut the words and see how they fall.
— Burroughs, William S. “The Cut-up Method of Brion Gysin.” The New Media Reader. 1961. Eds. Wardrip-Fruin, Noah and Nick Montfort. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2003. 90-91.
