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Similarly, William S. Burroughs, saw the cut-up method invented by Brion Gysin as a means not only of deconstructing the moral codes society inscribes in language, but also of letting unforeseen events enter the resulting texts. In an interview he observed “When you cut into the present the future leaks out...” Other times, other causalities come out to play... such as when Jean-Pierre Brisset stepped out of conventional time when he realised that his homophonic punning was taking him back to the primal language and the knowledge that humanity’s ancestors were frogs, not apes; or the sensation Roussel experienced while writing: “I was carrying the sun within myself and could do nothing to impede the tremendous light I was radiating.” Language in such moments is freed of its all-enveloping straitjacket, almost like the fantasy of what toys in the nursery get up to the moment the light is turned off and the door closed on them, leaving them to themselves... the words become Other and the way out of language opens up, in many cases not without physical effort, such as when Unica Zürn wrote the feverish lists for her anagrams, or Burroughs took scissors to paper.