The Ticket That Exploded Blog #3

While the content of The Ticket That Exploded has been very difficult for me to enjoy reading I have come to see that my reactions to the book so far are what the author originally hoped for. The book has been disturbing, has been hard to follow partially because I don’t want to follow it and it has made me sick and disgusted. I know these might seem like harsh reactions, but to me there not. I have done some research on the book to try to understand more, and I have heard about the “cut-up” style the author chose. While understanding that the author did this style of writing, it seems as though he wanted to make the book confusing, but as to why he chose to be grotesque, who knows. It said that he wanted it to “aim for the gut, bypassing linear thought” (http://www.mactonnies.com/burroughs.html) and he easily hit the gut for me. He didn’t want it to be easy for the reader, and he wanted it to make you feel something. I also have found that he complicates his writing by bringing two opposite ideas together creating a metaphorical feel. I still am slightly confused by the text and trying to understand the author, the point, and how it is relating to the class, but I think the fact that this book is advanced and relates to time and space and that connects with the whole nanotext feel. I am still very unsure of this book.