Burroughs of course used cut-ups in his early works, borrowing the idea from the artist Brion Gysin. The page below uses both techniques. The piece is called: "What's in a name?"

This is a story. It's about the Word, the Virus and the Magician. Crossing Time and Space, transcending cultural boundaries. It is about disguise and dissimulation, transmission and dissemination. It begins at an end, and ends at a beginning. Full circle, cycling through the ages, turning through 360 degrees and all points in between. It is a story about magic and codes, about dreams and reality; above all, it is about the Process.

The complete permutation of 'Nothing is true everything is permitted' is here.

And the permutation of 'Power is often very quiet' is here

A permutation download package is here.

'Nothing is True. Everything is Permuted: The Last Words of Hassan i Sabbah' is here
(Printable version here)

No-thing is True. Everything is Permuted.

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