I did a couple different cut-ups in class last week Wednesday. I did one using an essay from a class and then I did two other cut-ups with magazine articles. The following is the mixing of an article from Self magazine about Temple Grandin and another woman’s choice to become a vegetarian:
“This tugged my mind to dinner and eat my mother’s easter rib attention to the nuances of flavor. So it didn’t help that we lived in Chicago, uncomfortable comparisons. Skinned roast. Part of it was, again, you’d think I’d simply decide I was chock-full of ethnic neighborhoods and butchered, how different would it be the squeaky wheel. I tried the restaurants that go with them. We look on a plate? How different was this a big eye roller…”
It’s kind of funny, but it doesn’t make much sense! Doing the cut-ups reminded me of Mad-Lib puzzles where you choose several adjectives, verbs, nouns, adverbs, etc. to replace certain words in a story. This often results in a funny scenario that doesn’t make a lot of sense. At first when I was doing the cut-ups, I tried to arrange the different portions of text to contain meaning, but I did not have much success. I found this process of mixing text to be a very creative form of writing. I think if I had more time and used more articles I could have created something that made sense. I think it would be interesting to see the original work of an author and then view the cut-up version and see the new and different meaning of the text. I’m interested to see the cut-ups of my classmates to see if they were able to arrange the text to make sense!
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You're right, that doesn't make much sense, haha! Actually it sounds like something written by some half-crazed author which is always bound to turn up in an English class sooner or later! I think you're right on, though, when you said this reminds you of Mad Libs. I hadn't thought about it but it really is kind of similar.
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