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**Burroughs was greatly influenced by Gysin but he was able to take it one step further: He considered it only one of his writing tools along with newspaper articles, his dreams, seemingly random thoughts and any kind of word in his immediate vicinity. He took the scrambled text and reworked it until he felt it said something. Burroughs believed that he was not the writer but a transcriber of what was already written. It was no trouble if the words he wrote weren't his, since no words belonged to any writer, just like colours don't belong to painters. http://www.23degrees.net/cutup/
*Charles O. Hartman. Virtual Muse: Experiments in Computer Poetry. http://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Muse-Experiments-Computer-Wesleyan/dp/0819522392/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_2 / http://www.upne.com/0-8195-2238-4.html
*Brief History of the Oulipo. Jean Lescure. In ''New Media Reader'', Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Nick Montfort 2003.