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Gysin introduced Burroughs to the technique at the Beat Hotel.

The pair later applied the technique to printed media and audio recordings in an effort to decode the material's implicit content, hypothesizing that such a technique could be used to discover the true meaning of a given text.

Burroughs also suggested cut-ups may be effective as a form of divination saying, " When you cut into the present the future leaks out.

" Burroughs also further developed the " fold-in " technique.

In 1977, Burroughs and Gysin published The Third Mind, a collection of cut-up writings and essays on the form.

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