Title: The Cut-Up Prophet: Why Queering William Burroughs’ PDF Archive is a Radical Act
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canon. While it lacks the fractured "cut-up" technique of his later masterpiece Naked Lunch
Some popular online resources for Burroughs' PDFs include: Title: The Cut-Up Prophet: Why Queering William Burroughs’
marks the birth of Burroughs’ "routines"—comical, grotesque, and improvisational monologues used by the protagonist to get attention or cope with anxiety. This style eventually evolved into the fragmented "cut-up" technique used in Naked Lunch Isolation and Identity:
Contrast the American "normalcy" Lee fled with the "Interzone" he is creating. The Birth of the "Ugly Spirit" This style eventually evolved into the fragmented "cut-up"
Milo never became famous for this. He never set out to. He kept a drawer where he placed scraps: a postcard, a rehearsal schedule for a drag show, a receipt with two names on it. Once in a while he would open the drawer and run his fingers across the paper like someone reading braille. Each crease and coffee ring testified to what the PDF had taught him: that to be queer in the world is to build private catalogues of care, to give names to small mercies, and to pass those names along like contraband light.
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