Burroughs' Non Linear Adding Machine

[Ghost of Troubled Joe]

Here's a marvellous program I've been mucking around with, it produces Burroughsian "cut up, fold in" results. More of a word mong than a vision mong- one for all you writers out there:

http://23degrees.net/cutup/

[Rats]

Hey, that's decent that, it just spat out this

things lept
into the food
tear out was a tangle gave to me
but alone shiny and I'm heart defence
your smile creepies crept
and long listening
a pretty mess writing pirate prose black
break your barb itch irate faces aching reflection
when you're eighteen judy
and now I think
forbid that I'd mouth
then take and a pylon sways
I love you, all
well shut your choke on all back in heart,
then your no dinner
and kill fashion night

[Jemble Fred]

Can't get it to work! Every time I put text in and press Do It, it just resets...

[Rats]

I guess you're not putting enough text in. Change the "cut every 23 characters" to something lower

[Almost Yearly]

It's good to mess with the presets and add the odd conjunction to your starting texts:

bowler hats
if rats cocks
and the lazy Leith fox garden
the city police dismisseth us
jumps over brown the quick dog


I don't know if I mentioned it before, but I wrote a poem maker for the Mac once which I'm quite proud of. You can put in a subject. Here I bunged in "Troubled Joe" and "male" (but it didn't use any male pronouns, objects or possessives this time)...

You are this fluid of angsts!
 and where are you, Troubled Joe  ?
  away
  inside
  to wherever
  on the internet
  in the here and now
this arbitrary, tactile and ornate personification seems like his conviction,                            
  as it sucks life from the the heavens:
      a right old king's wife awakens willingly, and a host of nirvanas require Things from the dream so unreal,
you forever refute boisterous knapsacks
yet an infinity of charities provide a way of grasping an excess of rebellious lives ; innumerable pornographers too.
he is the talented publicity of a poignant deprivation. A pro - drunken bureaucrat, in fact ...
You collide,
                                      You sleuth utterly,
                                  You coddle,
                                      You oppress extraordinarily,
                  famous, bilingual,
  sensual,
  biological,
  nubile,
      alternatives      -      chasms      -      probabilities      -      thoughts      -      winters  -        
          and winters:
 the sadly chapfallen quotations unravel
 

[Jemble Fred]

Ah, it only works in Netscape.

[butnut]

Do I win the pretentious prize by sticking in the end of Ulysses?

I was a the jessamine and the Alameda gardens down Jo me sea the sea and first I to say yes yes and all mad and yes I will Yes.a girl where put my arms yes and then wear a red glorious sunsets and the queer little O and the and blue and Flower of the or shall I thought well as would I yes and drew him around him yes sea the sea wall and I to ask again I put the well him as yes and how yellow houses and or shall I geraniums and cactuses with my eyes he kissed me wear a red rose in my mountain yes when Andalusian girls used hair like the the rosegardens and the Alameda gardens he kissed me so he could the queer little feel my breasts streets and pink fire and the he asked me yes and all the rosegardens and I put the and his heart I was a all perfume yes and Gibraltar as mountain yes when a girl where I asked him streets and pink O and the was going like another and then the figtrees in yes and how I said yes and Gibraltar as my mountain flower hair like the Flower of the fire and the and blue and crimson sometimes like Andalusian girls used the figtrees in the jessamine and under the Moorish geraniums and cactuses glorious sunsets and yellow houses and crimson sometimes like rose in my

[Rats]

Wow yearly, that is class, is that really synthetic? You're wasted on selling windows or whatever you do.

winters -
and winters

that made my go all fuzzy

[Jemble Fred]

Part comedy sketch, part review of a film book, part children's story, and part review of Total Club Manager on the Xbox – all bollocks:

With its enormously Old Hollywood and is still squatting the Woolly Jerboa We are supposed resume of 45 awoke and he Ian McShane scrapbook! explain the collaboration Even the commentary the Cat's Protection to be at maintain interest by My poor wife in your wardrobe, one fine day and conflict dance by eight, was not right - he was Mcoist fits perfectly own! broad brief – League dinner and skimming through her ankles, trying to years of the studio system in lightweight 'personality' Ally tights around her in the tree from Motty and knew that something to provide.