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Cut-up

cut_up · procedural · validated

Cut a text into fragments and reassemble them in a new order.

Provenance

  • Source: Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs, Minutes to Go (1960)
  • Attribution: primary — a named author, work and year this catalogue stands behind
  • Checkability: source — decidable against the source text it was made from
  • Attested: author-stated — the originator set this rule down

Details

  • Kind: both
  • Languages: en
  • Requires: tokens
  • Deterministic: no
  • In other languages: Cut-up (de), Cut-up (fr)

Prompt hint

Cut the passage into fragments and reassemble them in a different order.

Parameters

Name Type Default Description
source string — The text this one was made from.

Examples

reassembled-from-the-source

en — this text satisfies the procedure.

fox the jumps

Parameters: source='the quick brown fox jumps'

Source: Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs, Minutes to Go (1960)

an-invented-word

en — this text does not satisfy the procedure.

zebra the jumps

Parameters: source='the quick brown fox jumps'

Source: constructed counterexample