Fold-in/Fold-out
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For those of you familiar with the word experiments of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, this technique needs no explanation. If you are not familiar with the technique, "fold-in" basically involves the permutation of different texts into a new context creating new meanings and new strains of information. More on this technique can be read in Burroughs' THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED and Gysin's THE THIRD MIND. It was said by Mister Burroughs that this new mutant language not only gave access to new realities, but that in some instances actually predicted future events. In any case, the results of "fold-in" texts is always fascinating. I have adapted the basic technique in the way Burroughs did in his tape-recorder experiments, reading texts with edits at arbitrary intervals, the playing the tape as a kind of "dictation", keeping the basic structure of the new text, but attempting to create grammatical cohesion where possible. I call this dictation process "fold-out".
Here is a brief example:
Russian Muslims can stage violent improbability of a gay man's natural urges by some sectors of the nature of man and the world. We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals labeled by the Vatican as dangerous dairy treats. If you are not already convinced that the theory of natural selection was a direct challenge for the audience to prove priests then went further, a sudden heart-throb of warning drew a latent soul, which will presently appear before its judge. The soothing hum of a guy who kept writing "penis" on my door sends Buffy--with or without her underwear--flying into a black hole on a real freefall orbit. Then we saw Bedouin."
Another:
The thinker without the paradox is like the lover where the 1918 flu became one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. The right of citizenship does not pass easily from person to person, but military personnel has taught us that "cleanliness is next to godliness". News about religious nuclear power has no atheism, and your comment causes people to talk to invisible beings to compete with the traditional three-dimensional graphics of the most successful mind. A fight is taking place over the future direction of national organized efforts to add gelatin to everything they produced, which prevents urgent accessibility.
Current events and news reports obviously played a large part in the creation of the above examples, but it might be interesting to look at "fold-in/out" messages at some later date to see if there is some significant meaning that does not seem apparent at the present time. Perhaps the mere reading of these words out of their original contexts might plant a subconscious "seed" that at some later date could influence a choice or perception which is completely unrelated. Quantum theorists might even suggest that the word might be a thriving entity which bridges parallel realities.
Whatever is true (if, in fact, truth can be ultimately defined), one thing is certain: the word (or act of communicating through language) is a fundamental function of the human life-form. Or, to quote a Judeo-Christian source, "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God". Mister Burroughs had said "language is a virus". Whatever is true, communication and communion seem to be inseparable human conditions.
Just something to think about.
FCGST (sensory mode linguistic)
For those of you familiar with the word experiments of Brion Gysin and William Burroughs, this technique needs no explanation. If you are not familiar with the technique, "fold-in" basically involves the permutation of different texts into a new context creating new meanings and new strains of information. More on this technique can be read in Burroughs' THE TICKET THAT EXPLODED and Gysin's THE THIRD MIND. It was said by Mister Burroughs that this new mutant language not only gave access to new realities, but that in some instances actually predicted future events. In any case, the results of "fold-in" texts is always fascinating. I have adapted the basic technique in the way Burroughs did in his tape-recorder experiments, reading texts with edits at arbitrary intervals, the playing the tape as a kind of "dictation", keeping the basic structure of the new text, but attempting to create grammatical cohesion where possible. I call this dictation process "fold-out".
Here is a brief example:
Russian Muslims can stage violent improbability of a gay man's natural urges by some sectors of the nature of man and the world. We have the right to defend ourselves and our property, because of the kind of animals labeled by the Vatican as dangerous dairy treats. If you are not already convinced that the theory of natural selection was a direct challenge for the audience to prove priests then went further, a sudden heart-throb of warning drew a latent soul, which will presently appear before its judge. The soothing hum of a guy who kept writing "penis" on my door sends Buffy--with or without her underwear--flying into a black hole on a real freefall orbit. Then we saw Bedouin."
Another:
The thinker without the paradox is like the lover where the 1918 flu became one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. The right of citizenship does not pass easily from person to person, but military personnel has taught us that "cleanliness is next to godliness". News about religious nuclear power has no atheism, and your comment causes people to talk to invisible beings to compete with the traditional three-dimensional graphics of the most successful mind. A fight is taking place over the future direction of national organized efforts to add gelatin to everything they produced, which prevents urgent accessibility.
Current events and news reports obviously played a large part in the creation of the above examples, but it might be interesting to look at "fold-in/out" messages at some later date to see if there is some significant meaning that does not seem apparent at the present time. Perhaps the mere reading of these words out of their original contexts might plant a subconscious "seed" that at some later date could influence a choice or perception which is completely unrelated. Quantum theorists might even suggest that the word might be a thriving entity which bridges parallel realities.
Whatever is true (if, in fact, truth can be ultimately defined), one thing is certain: the word (or act of communicating through language) is a fundamental function of the human life-form. Or, to quote a Judeo-Christian source, "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God". Mister Burroughs had said "language is a virus". Whatever is true, communication and communion seem to be inseparable human conditions.
Just something to think about.
FCGST (sensory mode linguistic)