right now write now (William Burroughs' article)

Although Burroughs' article about cut-ups seems at first to only describe an artistic movement, you can begin to see after reading for awhile that the article itself is art. One of my favorite passages in the article is "Greek philosophers assumed logically that an object twice as heavy as another object would fall twice as fast. It did not occur to them to push the two objects off the table and see how they fall. Cut the words and see how they fall." I also appreciate Burroughs' assertion that "all writing is in fact cut-ups. A collage of words read hear overheard." This reminds me a lot of the remixing article we read earlier in the semester, as it relates to the "history of sound" used as a library for music; poetry and prose are nothing more than remixes, taking samples from the "history of words." I do have a question about this article, though. It seems to me that we have come up with words and language throughout the history of our existence in order to be able to convey emotion and thought to each other. Therefore, by randomly cutting and pasting words into new artforms, is there really any meaning to the piece besides the fact that it is a cut-up? If the words and sentences no longer mean anything, then how can the artwork as a whole mean anything?