131 174
176
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BARNES, DJUNA. Group of 6 Brief Typed Letters Signed, thanking for gifts.
Together 6 pages, 4to or oblong 12mo. Each with the original envelope.
[NewYork], 1973-81
[200/300]
177
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BECKETT, SAMUEL.Autograph Note Signed, to Gregory Stephenson, apologiz-
ing that he has nothing to submit to any magazine. 1 page, oblong 16mo, personal
correspondence card.With the original envelope, addressed in his hand.
Paris, 4 December 1982
[200/300]
178
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BUNNER, HENRY CUYLER. Group of 12
items:TwoAutograph Manuscripts,
one Signed * 3 Autograph Letters Signed * 6 Typed Letters Signed. The manuscripts, fair
copies of poems:“A Lost Child,” and “The Light,” the latter signed “H.C. Bunner.”The let-
ters, most to Richard Watson Gilder, signed “H.C. Bunner” or “H.C.B.,” one on
Puck
stationery.Together 20 pages, mostly 4to; condition generally good.
Vp, 1879-94
[80/120]
ORIGIN AND EXPLANATION OF CUT-UPTECHNIQUE
179
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BURROUGHS, WILLIAM S. Group of 4 items, each to Gregory Stephenson:
Two Typed Letters Signed, with several holograph corrections * Two Autograph Notes
Signed, greeting cards. The letters, discussing parallels between Gnosticism and his own
writing, giving his account of the origin and import of the cut-up technique, mentioning
that he had just finished his new novel,
Place of Dead Roads
, stating that he had undergone
training in the operation of lie detectors and how to defeat them.The notes, thanking for
gifts.Together 6 pages, 4to, or oblong 12mo; condition generally good. Each with the orig-
inal envelope.
[Lawrence], 1982-93
[500/750]
20 November 1982: “. . . My knowledge of the Gnostics was extremely superficial: I did not
even know the meaning of the word before reading your treatise. However, the precise parraells
[sic] with my own lines of thought, independently arrived at, are striking. I feel that the estab-
lished dogmatic religious systems like Christianity and Islam are not simply inadequate, but
basically evil in that they block spiritual emancipation . . . .
“
. . .The cut-ups were Brion Gysins’s idea not mine. He said that writing is fifty years behind
painting and applied montage techniques to writing. Life is a cut up. Every time you walk
down the street or look out the window you[r] consciousness is cut by random factors. . . . By
literally cutting through the prerecordings, we extend the area of awareness and open the door to
the unforeseen and the unpredictable . . . .”
3 June 1984: “. . . I have been trained in the use of a lie detector 8 hours a day for six weeks.
Most of the ways of beating the machine would be quickly spotted by an experienced operator. . . .Yes
I have read all the Don Juan books and I took a seiminar [sic] with Robert Monroe the
Journey Out of the Body—man, interesting but inconclusive.”
WITH
—
Brion Gysin. Group of 9 items to Stephenson, including an 3 ALsS, two TLsS, and
Autograph Postcards Signed, mostly on personal topics, but some concerning Borroughs.Together
9 pages, 4to or oblong 12mo.Vp, 1980-83.