tree of pose

Jonathan Safran Foer - Tree of Codes... so if I buy one of his books and chop it up, is it Art? Art of the Humument did it first a long time ago, so a) it isn't new, and b) it's CRAP.... take a book and cut bits out of it to make another story? Hey, why not buy a Dictionary and make lots of stories? Deconstruction, very Post Modern and tongue in cheek.... or just having a laugh all the way to the bank? Something about it just sticks in my craw, sorry; like getting paid to make fun of literature. I want to believe in it as a subversion of traditional literature, really I do; but I can't. William Burroughs did it once or twice, and it did shake things up back in the day; I think I need to find out why this is provoking such a strong knee jerk reaction in me. Am I jealous? Yes, but then if I had done it NO ONE would give a feck. Because he is like, I don't know, the Damien Hirst of PoMo literature, people 'get it'?? Is it that is seems sacriligeous to destroy a perfectly good book? Maybe a smidge of that also, and how annoying is it to read? MAYBE I am just too old and cynical.

Hm, a new thought. Maybe take a classic Led Zep LP and just y'know; cut bits out of it and rearrange bits... oh wait. It's been done. So scratching and remixing moves onto books? I could write a computer programme to do that for me with music and books, you say? Bring it on...