Sorry, just seem like cliches to me. Been through that...no there there.
I'll reread King Lear instead. Especially the last few lines.
On 11/28/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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:
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>
> 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.
>
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> On 11/27/07, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> "I have nothing to say / and I am saying it / and that is poetry / as I
> needed it" --John Cage
>
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