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206 COINCIDANCE Dali, who had a Jewish wife and fled France as soon as Hitler invaded, was speaking in a totally dispassionate and non-aristotelian fashion when he "defended" the monster. Hitler did indeed have four balls and six foreskins, in the same sense that Lenin had one giant buttock, as in Daii's famous painting of him. Perhaps Daii's attitude toward Hitler would have been clearer if he had painted it, as he painted his attitude toward Lenin, instead of trying to verbalize the ineffable. After all, if one Russian General gets shot by a man with the same name as America's leading conservative and another gets shot by a man with the same name as the chap who proved Irish was an Indo-European language, it is only logical that a third Russian General should heist the Maltese Falcon, right? But seriously, folks—as Bob Hope used to say—the method used by Tzara in breaking the back of Aristotelianism was the same method used by Claud Shannon in discovering the mathematical definition of information. Look it up in Shannon's The Mathematical Theory of Communication. Dr. Shannon cut up prose into single words, threw them in a hat, picked them out one at a time— just like Tristan without Isolde creating a Dada poem—and from this Shannon produced not poetry but the ideas that allowed him to define information as the opposite of predictability. The basic equation is elegant, and is given also in my book Right Where You Are Silting Now and it was this mathematical analysis that made possible the word processor on which I am writing this. That this word processor is called a Mackintosh—like the man who haunts Bloom all through 16 June 1904—is "only" a coincidence, of course. Of course. Painters explored collage extensively in the 40 years after Tzara's breakthrough, and every motion picture director conducted extensive research in montage, but prose and poetry, with few exceptions {Joyce, Pound, Williams) moved backward like a crab and crawled into the Victorian or pre- Einsteinian murk. The second quantum leap occurred in the late 1950s when William S. Burroughs began experimenting with the cut-up and fold-in techniques and created a prose of incredible accidental beauty and Zen humor. I have used various cut-up and other stochastic techniques in all my novels and have noticed one amusing thing about the response to this: hostility is expressed most widely if I admit that I am using "mechanical" techniques of the Burroughs and Tzara variety. If I do not publicize this fact, there is much less hostility. It appears that lazy readers are only terrified of the new if they are warned in advance that it actually is novel and experimental. Otherwise they just pass over it as a confusing passage and forget it. I am not interested in lazy readers, however, but in the attentive and awake. The techniques used in creating the following experiment were not possible
COINCIDANCE 207 until the modern word processor appeared. They are not "mechanical" but electronic. Beyond that, I offer no explanation and no elucidation. This experiment means what the reader thinks it means; it proves what vou think it proves. It was a lot of fun for me, and I find it more startling than most of you out there, since 1 had some control over it, but not enough control to keep it from surprising the hell out of me when it was finally crystallized.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Doctor Willi t
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COINCIDANCE: PART ONE Synchronicity
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