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Verbasizer - a sentence randomizer app he designed for writing the album’s lyrics.


See too Gysin/Burroughs c. 1959.[0]

Bowie would have been ~12yo.

[0] https://www.languageisavirus.com/creative-writing-techniques...


Apt reference to Burroughs, as he and Bowie ended up meeting in the early/mid '70s, and Bowie employed the cut-up technique somewhat often on his albums afterwards (starting with Diamond Dogs, if I'm not mistaken). So the Verbasizer was essentially Bowie's attempt to modernize a creative process he was already very fond of.




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