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An oddly hypnotic moment unfolds in this Brion Gysin cut-up featuring William S. Burroughs, which I saw last week at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris. A simple back-and-forth becomes a playful test of attention, persistence, and picture-gazing, with repeated greetings and affirmations giving the clip a strangely funny rhythm.