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Time (book)

Time^[1] by William S. Burroughs describes itself in a publisher's forward as "a book of words and pictures." It is an early example of Burroughs' use of the cut-up technique, which he used extensively at the time.

In various places it mimics the format or appropriates the content of Time Magazine, with its cover, its faux table of contents, some photocopied text and illustrations (including a full-page advertisement for Johns-Manville, and the like. Other illustrations have non-Time sources.

Published as a pamphlet of some 30 unnumbered pages that are approximately the size of Time Magazine's pages, Burroughs' book includes four full-page drawings by Byron Gysin, his occasional collaborator, credited with rediscovering cut-up in the previous decade, and with teaching it to Burroughs.^[2] Much of the writing is fragmentary, some of it utilizing Burroughs' cut-ups. Characters and imagery from earlier Burroughs publications appear here.

Some of the text is in columns, while other parts are full width; portions are in full width stanzas. The frequent changes in the texture of the presentation add variety to the fragmentary text.

References

^ Time by William S. Burroughs, published by "C" Press, 1965
^ cut-up technique, in Wikipedia

External link

Reality Studio, a Web site devoted to Burroughs' work Photographic reproduction of the pages of Time

Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 06:21, 14 January 2012 (UTC) Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 02:03, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

[1] Time by William S. Burroughs, published by "C" Press, 1965

[2] ut-up technique, in Wikipedia

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