And then he gave a more detailed explanation of cutup, specifically how Burroughs developed a method of his own. He took an existing piece of writing, something that had already been printed, like a book or a magazine article or even a few paragraphs that you have written yourself, and you cut it up and rearrange the words, and you force yourself to see meaning in the arbitrary jumble. And then he identified some prominent songwriters who used the method—I think he mentioned David Bowie and Kurt Cobain,
