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"Cut Ups As Underground Weapon", undated : carbon copy of typescript

BIB_ID
455811
Accession number
MA 23933.5
Creator
Burroughs, William S., 1914-1997, author.
Credit line
Purchased on the Drue Heinz Fund for Twentieth-Century Literature, 2025.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 25.4 x 20.4 cm
Notes
Probable date based on possibly accompanying cover letter (MA 23933.4).
Carbon copy of typescript on white paper with minor corrections in ink.
Part of a small collection of literary documents acquired together, cataloged separately detailing a feud between William S. Burroughs and Lawrence Lipton waged in the pages of The Los Angeles Free Press, ("The Freep"). Lipton wrote a negative review of Brion Gysin's novel "The Process" focusing on the use of "cut ups" published in Freep #295, March 1970 and Burroughs responded with a critique of the review; see related collection record (MA 23933) for more information.
Summary
Detailing how "cut ups on the tape recorder can be used as a weapon" and discussing the underground press as "the only effective counter" to mass media.