Inspiration from Dada to Burroughs' Cut Ups

I'm not sure if this is a means to inspiration or a means to an end.

In late 1920, the Dadaist writer Tristan Tzara wrote “dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love,” which included a section called “To Make a Dadaist Poem,” and it gave these instructions:

• Take a newspaper. 

• Take some scissors. 

• Choose from this paper an article of the length you want to make your poem. 

• Cut out the article. 

• Next carefully cut out each of the words that makes up this article and put them all in a bag. 

• Shake gently. 

• Next take out each cutting one after the other. 

• Copy conscientiously in the order in which they left the bag. 

• The poem will resemble you. 

• And there you are – an infinitely original author of charming sensibility, even though unappreciated by the vulgar herd.

http://www.openculture.com/2011/08/william_s_burroughs_on_the_art_of_cutup_writing.html

William S. Burroughs had his own take on the technique, chopping his own work, creating montage in writing and having this to say about it:

https://youtu.be/Rc2yU7OUMcI

Really has to be worth a shot doesn't it?