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Conventional fiction

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Subject Source: Sackner Database

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Cunt-Ups / Bellamy, Dodie ; Burroughs WS ; Wieners J ; Acker K., 2001

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Identifier: CC-59601-10002679
Scope and Contents Dodie Bellamy: "Cunt-Ups is a hermaphroditic salute to William Burroughs and Kathy Acker. I started the project as cut-ups, in the original Burroughs sense, as delineated in The Job. I used a variety of texts written by myself and others. Per Burroughs' rather vague instructions, I cut each page of this material into four squares. For each cunt-up I chose two or three squares from my own source text, and one or two from other sources. I taped the new Frankenstein page together, typed it into my computer and then reworked the material. When my own source text was used up my cunt-ups were finished. The body with all organs slithers and lunges through netsex, psychic oozings, alien invasion, and serial murder. In ecstatic peristalsis the lover endlessly re/turns to life.Is the cut-up a male form? I've always considered it so"”needing the violence of a pair of scissors in order to reach nonlinearity. Is the pornographic a male realm? I think so. Women are usually stuck in the more...
Dates: 2001