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What are cut ups?

The cut up technique is a chance-based literary technique in which a text is cut up and rearranged to create a new text. The concept can be traced to at least the Dadaists of the 1920s, but was popularized in the late 1950s and early 1960s by writer William S. Burroughs, and has since been used in a wide variety of contexts [source]. The texts used to make the cut on this site break each text down to separate lines of around 85 glyphs then folds the two sources together like shuffling a deck of cards.

How do I use this?

Click the arrow button on the main page.

Select your first source. This is optional. You can input text or select a source. Scroll down.

Select your second source. This is optional. Scroll down.

If you didn't select a source you'll get a blank document; if you selected one source the document will be just that; if you selected two different sources you'll get a cut up document.

Select a name. Select a password if you'd like the document to be lockable. Click "create document".

You will now see your new document.

Copy the url to access it later on.