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The Power of Words Mouthed by Powerful People
William S. Burroughs and "Naked Lunch"
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Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 14:10:22 CST
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Subject: The Power of Words Mouthed by Powerful People
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 20:45:21 EST
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From: Todd_Kaufmann@ankara.mt.cs.cmu.edu
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what we see is determined to a large extent by what we hear you can verify
this proposition by a simple experiment turn off the sound track on your
television set and substitute an arbitrary sound track ..."
Does anyone have Bush's State o.t.Union address online?
I'm editing a tape in order to bring out the full truth,
and this would help immensely; else I'll have to fall back
on scanner & ocr technologies, but someone must have it in
the orignial digital. (lost my clarinet nntp connection; got one?).
I'll gladly recompense with result(s) of said editing.
Or if you have a radio show,
will be glad to send you something for airplay.
"...
the simplest variety of cut up on tape can be carried out with one machine
like this record any text rewind to the beginning now run forward an
arbitrary interval stop the machine and record a short text wind forward stop
record where you have recorded over the original text the words are wiped out
and replaced with new words do this several times creating arbitrary
juxtapositions you will notice that the arbitrary cuts in are appropriate in
many cases and your cut up tape makes surprising sense cut up tapes can be
hilariously funny twenty years ago i heard a tape called the drunken
newscaster prepared by jerry newman of new york cutting up news broadcasts i
can not remember the words at this distance but i do remember laughing until i
fell out of a chair paul bowles calls the tape recorder god's little toy maybe
his last toy fading into the cold spring air poses a colorless question
any number can play
yes any number can play anyone with a tape recorder controlling the sound
track can influence and create events the tape recorder experiments
described here will show you how this influence can be extended and correlated
into the precise operation this is the invisible generation he looks like an
advertising executive a college student an american tourist doesn't matter
what your cover story is so long as it covers you and leaves you free to act
you need a philips compact cassette recorder handy machine for street
recording and playback you can carry it under your coat for recording looks
like a transistor radio for playback playback in the street will show the
influence of your sound track in operation of course the most undetectable
playback is street recordings people don't notice yesterday voices phantom car
holes in time accidents of past time played back in present time screech of
brakes loud honk of an absent horn can occasion an accident here old fires
still catch old buildings still fall or take a prerecorded sound track into
the street anything you want to put out on the sublim eire play back two
minutes record two minutes mixing your message with the street waft your
message right into a worthy ear some carriers are much better than others you
know the ones lips moving muttering away carry my message all over london in
..."
Some rumor: a network of sound. How do I get in?
If it doesn't exist, perhaps we should invent it.
Those with sparc/next or other network machines
with audio capabilites, open a port and become
the mouthpiece of others. Trade soundbites.
Talk to machines, let the machines talk to
each other, the sounds combine and mutate
the machines talk to us.
"...
is this being done
obviously it is not only way to break the inexorable down spiral of ugly
uglier ugliest recording and playback is with counterrecording and playback
the first step is to isolate and cut association lines of the control machine
carry a tape recorder with you and record all the ugliest stupidest things cut
your ugly tapes in together speed up slow down play backwards inch the tape
you will hear one ugly voice and see one ugly spirit is made of ugly old
prerecordings the more you run the tapes through and cut them up the less
power they will have cut the prerecordings into air into thin air
" [WSB1962]
Switch on playback.
Join the invisible generation.
[WSB1962] William S. Burroughs, excerpts from ``the invisible generation''
last chapter of The Ticket That Exploded, 1962.
(~20K; available in text, TeX, fax, liquid, powder, mRNA viral,
hardcopy, magneto-aural, magneto-digital, or postscript form.
Write for copy.)
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From: Nathan Charles Crowell <bigal@wpi.wpi.edu>
Message-Id: <9201301446.AA10849@wpi.WPI.EDU>
Subject: William S. Burroughs and "Naked Lunch"
To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 92 9:46:44 EST
Has anyone out there ever read the novel "Naked Lunch"? I ask
because I saw the film version last weekend (very interesting,
striking imagery, some implicit SubG influences...) and was
curious if anyone had any comment on either the film or the
book.
I would assume the book is better, because they usually
are (I can only think of one exception; 2001 by Arthur C. Clarke
and Stanley Kubrick). I've read Burrough's contribution to _Three
Fisted Tales of "Bob"_, but I get the feeling it's not entirely
representative of his work overall.
Any comments, input, etc. would be most enlightening, as
I now intend to explore Burrough's work...even read "Naked Lunch".
N8
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