"We are making tentative steps to separate thee lies ov illusion from a more 
tenable reality. William Burroughs and Brion Gysin showed us a way with 
thee idea ov "cut-ups". They saw words as being powerful tools, both ov
opression and liberation. By changing thee sequence ov words they allow 
thee intuitive faculty ov the reader to coum into play, and thee underlying 
meanings ov written statements, in a paradoxical way, are revealed to us." 
(ToPy On-line Transmission I)
                 
                                                                            
"Words have a vitality all their own, and you or anybody can make them 
gush into action." (Third Mind, pg.34)


"I am sure at least , that for many a young man his first discovery of the fact

that words are living powers, are the vesture, yea, even the body, which 
thoughts weave for themselves, has been like the dropping of scales from his 
eyes, like the acquiring of another sense, or the introduction into a new 
world he is never able to cease wondering at..." (The Study of Words, pg.2)


The interweaving levels ov thought that can be created using thee Cut-uP 
method are many and various...take a book and cut up thee words...take any 
material whatsoever...a letter, typed text...anything can be used...create a 
computer program to Cut-uP words for you...or just do it manually...the key 
being to experiment and create...Thee Cut-uP method creates new structures 
or levels ov thought that show and give meaning, insight...it can be used as a 
magickal tool...  


"In a universe of seeming order manifesting out of chaos, cut-ups are an 
ideal divinatory model. From randomly rearranging cut-up slips of text, the 
subconscious mind can speak directly through the results. Performed in the 
proper context, the act of cutting-up can effectivly "make a hole in time": It 
was written in the past, cut and rearranged in the present, and speaks in the 
future (or no time frame at all).

The methods are many: type all you know about a subject that you have 
limited knowledge of and cut. You might gain a new insight. Combine texts 
pertaining to different facets of your life and see what it says to you. Take a

book and photocopy the pages that have a numerological significance to you 
and have at it. Do it Qabbalisticly, by Gematria, Astrologically, or
illogically..." 
(The Divine Cut-Up by Fra. Dischordant)


"the hallucinated have come to tell you that yr utilities are being shut off   
dreams monitored, thought directed, sex is shutting down everywhere you 
are being sent.

all word are taped. agents everywhere. marking down the live ones to 
exterminate. 

they are turning out the lights.

no they are not evil, nor the devil, but men on a mission with a spot of work 
to do.

this, dear friends, they intend to do on you.

you have been offered a choice between liberty and freedom and No! you 
can not have both.

the next step is everyone into space but it has been a long dull wait since the

last tower of babel, that first derisive visit of the paraclete.

let's not hear that noise again and again.

that may well be the last word anywhere.

this is not the beginning. in the beginning was the word, the word has been 
in for a too long time, you in the word and the word in you

we are out 
you are in 

we have come to let you out

here and now we will show you what you can do
with and to
the word
the words
any word
all the words

Pick a book, any book, cut it up
cut up
prose
poems
newspapers
magazines
the bible
the koran
the book of moroni
la-tzu
confucius
the bhagavad gita
anything
letters
business correspondence
ads
all the words

slice down the middle, dice into sections
according to taste
chop in some bible, pour on some Madison Avenue prose
shuffle cards, toss like confette
taste it like piping hot alphabet soup

pass yr friends' letters, yr office carbons through any such sieve as you may 
find or invent.

you will soon see just what they really are saying. this is the terminal 
method for finding the truth.

piece together a masterpiece a week. use better materials more highly 
charged words.

there is no longer a need to drum up a season of geniuses, be your own agent   
until we deliver the machine in commercially reasonable quantities.

we wish to announce that while we esteem this to be truly the American 
Way we have no commitments with any government groups

the writing machine is for everybody, do it yourself until the machine comes.

here is the system according to us.

(Brion Gysin's Minutes to Go)

