I find your language totally unconvincing as evaluative criticism and
suggest you demonstrate scholarly mastery of all the material indexed
within the useful site "John Cage Online":
http://ronsen.org/cagelinks.html
Yes, tends to reconcile one to the world as it is. Very motivational.
I think Dale Carnegie said it first tho --in "How to Stop Worrying
and Start Living."
Something else of equal depth!
"Instead of worrying about ingratitude, let's expect it. Let's
remember that Jesus healed ten lepers in one day--and only one thanked
Him. Why should we expect more gratitude than Jesus got?"
Indeed!
"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still
boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one
discovers that it is not boring at all." --John Cage.
And to that I say:
Souls of poets dead and gone
Be sure to keep your condoms on.
Be advised your lissome muse
Won't be as prankish as she used.
And though, perhaps, your stiffened chillness
Will seem to some a formal stillness
And the worm your daily wage is:
You'll still be better than John Cage is.
On 11/27/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
"I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I
needed it" --John Cage
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