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Fragments of texts were ready-made, from articles, books and magazines, so the result is not so much original writing as original editing.  It reads like a mixture of Joyce, Burroughs and Roussel.  Much of the content is spoofing and not intended to be taken seriously but inherent in these works and developed progressively was the desire to expand the possibilities of free association and lateral thinking....\nIn <i>Moonstrips</i>, conventional binding and editor were eliminated altogether.  The reader is presented with a box of 100 loose leaf sheets he can arrange and rearrange in any order, any number of times.  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