Notes
Notes and asides reflecting the perspectives of various academic disciplines
The Cosmic Cage
"Now think of a cheetah that has been captured and thrown into a miserable cage in a zoo. It has lost its original grace and beauty, and is put on display for our amusement. We see only the broken spirit of the cheetah in the cage, not its original power and elegance. The cheetah can [...]
The Criminal Virus
"The criminal virus controls by occluding (putting us in a sort of half sleep) so that we do not see the living quality of this world, but see it as inert. Man reduced to automaton. The occlusion is self-perpetuating; it makes us unaware of it…
The process of thinking paradoxical thoughts is a pointer to [...]
Cut-ups
"Burroughs… developed the concept of 'cut-up' in using it to demonstrate the controlling quality intrinsic to 'the Word'; possession over human beings by language. The cut-up is a way of exposing word and image controls thereby freeing oneself from them, an alteration of consciousness that occurs in both the writer and the reader [...]
