Naked Lunch came out in 1959. Gravity's Rainbow in 1973. What do you think, was Pynchon inspired by the technique? Did he write a normal novel and then just cut up paragraphs/sentences and put them quasi-randomly back together?
>>25622563I don't know because I haven't read either of those books.
>>25622563literally yes now delete this post and keep this shit to yourself
>>25622563The Cubists did it first.
>>25622563Probably. Burrows himself also came to the conclusion eventually that the cut up technique was simply an early conceptualization of what it means to think and put together thoughts. A cut up board is basically an inspiration board, a press kit, a set of dossiers or articles. But yeah, Pynchin is super based so I’m sure he employed a lot of these methods very loyalty and if your cover is an illustration of a human with medical diagram superimposed over it, there’s a 90% chance you are a huge fan of Burroughs
>>25622563Naked Lunch is not a cut up. Nova Trilogy was.In Pynchon’s method, I would see, rather, an engagement with high-level ideas that are given a human dimension through his zany, silly humor.
>>25622563Post a paragraph or page from Gravity's Rainbow that resembles the Nova trilogy at all. It has often been speculated that parts of Gravity's Rainbow were compiled from unpublished short stores (Byron, &c), but there's really no indication he used cut up. If he did work in short stories, like Byron's, he also went back into the text and wrote in some set-up so it wasn't jarring
>>25622563Obviously not, although he was clearly influenced by Burroughs.
