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Originally Posted by Richard Pryor on Fire

I'm not hating And that whole cut-up idea I think is responsible for loads of stuff, like that whole movies out of chronological order thing that seems tired and obvious now, burroughs was doing this in 1959!

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hm, perhaps you may have heard of oedipus rex, this old-as-fuck play... about hm 2500 years old (i'm approximating). if by "whole movies out of chronological order" you mean that shit starts in the middle of the action & then you have flashbacks to explain whats going on etc well that was already done there. was done in the illiad too which is older. if you mean shit like memento, that was something else & it had a clear cause. if you are talking about fragmenting perception, that was something that the cubists were doing in the 1910's. film editing was invented in the 20's and for that i refer you to the work of sergei einsenstein-- not even "potemkin", go back to "strike" even which is oh so cheesy & so wonderful. if you're talking about random seemingly disconnected things that flow from the unconscious the surrealists did it in the 20's. burroughs contribution was, well, the coks & spurts & turds-- which are fine actually but don't carry a whole novel very well. the problem with reading only things published in the past 50 years is that one loses perspective in a huge way. cervantes was a genius, burroughs was just a very smart guy.

note-- no "hatin" no no no-- i like to discuss things i care about. as long as we stick to the subject & avoid insults & cock contests it's all good.