Just made available on-line: John Cage performs "Water Walk" on a late
fifties tv show I remember watching, though not this installment. Wish I
had--missing it probably set back the development of my aesthetic. I did
catch a reading by Jack Kerouac to Steve Allen's piano on Allen's late
night tv show perhaps two years later, though Cage was to prove much more
useful to me. There's a particularly memorable spoken formulation here,
the diction of which I don't remember encountering elsewhere in Cage's
oeuvre, "I prefer laughter to tears." Barry Alpert
http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/05/its_okay_to_lau.html
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