Seeing part of Burroughs' personality (in the interview) and comparing it to small parts of his work is fascinating. Though both the interview and excerpts from his work were brief, it was immediately clear that they ere of the same person. The way he is (or seems to be) is the way he writes. He seems somewhat scattered, yet still intentional, like his cut-up work. His cut up work was also interesting - not easy to comprehend, but clearly done the way it is for a reason, or for no reason at all.
I decided to try a cut-up poem from a page of the book I'm reading now - American Gods by Neil Gaiman.
Grim, as many titles as there are ways to die.
Drown that whisper.
Beach of skulls tasting the sounds,
Believe everything.
Ghostly-grey, somewhere deep beneath the world,
Drown that whisper, "Odin."
"Odin."
It would have been warmer there.
The way the same words can make several completely different things is an amazing concept. Here is the page from which the words were taken:
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