The Third Mind
The Third Mind is a book by Beat Generation novelist William S. Burroughs and artist/poet/novelist Brion Gysin. First published in a French-language edition in 1977, it was published in English in 1978. It contains numerous short fiction pieces as well as poetry by Gysin, and an interview with Burroughs. Some chapters had previously been published, in slightly different form, in various literary journals between 1960 and 1973.
The book is a combination of literary essays and writing showcasing the cut-up technique popularized by Burroughs and Gysin in the 1960s. Cut-ups involves taking texts, cutting the pages, and then rearranging and combining the pieces to form new narratives. The technique was adapted for filmmaking, as demonstrated by Burroughs and director Antony Balch in their early 1960s short film, The Cut-Ups.
Contents
- "Proclaim Present Time Over" (in: The Award Avant-Garde Reader)
- "Let the Mice In" (in: Brion Gysin Let the Mice In (1973))
- "The Cut-up Method of Brion Gysin" (in: A Casebook on the Beat)
- "Cut-ups Self-Explained," "Cut-ups: A Project for Disastrous Success," and "Fold-ins" (in: Evergreen Review)
- "The Exterminator" (in: The Exterminator (1960))
- "Formats: The Grid" (in: Insect Trust Gazette)
- "Films" (in: May fair)
- "First Cut-ups" and "Intersection Readings" (in: Minutes to Go (1960))
- "Technical Deposition of the Virus Power" (in: Nova Express)
- "Interview with William S. Burroughs." (in: The Paris Review)
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- And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks
- Junkie
- Queer
- Naked Lunch
- The Soft Machine
- The Ticket That Exploded
- Dead Fingers Talk
- Nova Express
- The Last Words of Dutch Schultz
- The Wild Boys
- Port of Saints
- Blade Runner (a movie)
- Cities of the Red Night
- Ghost of Chance
- The Place of Dead Roads
- The Western Lands
- My Education: A Book of Dreams
- The Cat Inside
- Interzone
- Exterminator!
- Ah Pook Is Here
- Tornado Alley
- The Third Mind
- The Electronic Revolution
- The Third Mind
- Ali's Smile: Naked Scientology
- The Adding Machine: Collected Essays
- The Yage Letters
- The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs
- Last Words: The Final Journals of William S. Burroughs
- Beat Generation
- Beat Hotel
- Cut-up technique
- The Black Rider
- Burroughs (film)
- Naked Lunch (film)
- Queer (film)
- The Junky's Christmas
- Beat
- Words of Advice: William S. Burroughs on the Road
- Corso: The Last Beat
- William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
- Kill Your Darlings
- 23 enigma
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