A poetry-prose-lecture-performance spoken word show recorded at Scarlet Imprint's Pleasure Dome event. On scissor magic in folk lore and occult philosophy, the cut-up technique of Gysin and Burroughs, and reflection upon the manipulation of old text to create new. Performed using a chatterbox and various randomising elements.
“Necromancer (necromantes) he that practises that wicked Art, a Master of the Black Art, one that seeks to the dead; or consults with Satan in the shape of a dead man. The Hebrews describe him thus; he made himself hungry, and then lodged among the Graves, that the dead might come to him in a dream, and make known to him that which he asked, &c. Others there were that clad themselves with cloathes for that purpose, and spoke certain words, burned Incense, and slept by themselves, that such a dead person might come and talk with them in a dream.”
- Thomas Blount, Glossographia (London, 1661)