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If I may either talk or think, Barry, I like this.Tho, in thinking about it,
 I would end it:
 
 Son of pride
 the narrator dies.   
 
 Stephen V
 http://stephenvincent.net/blog/

Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote: GEORGE ELIOT & JOHN CAGE TALK SHOP IN HEAVEN


Key figure in thinking on
where you put
I.

Enter the only language 
in which you cannot say,
“Humor is a rubber sword.”

I remember, rather timidly,
when one green star,
reeling, proclaimed:

“What do we live for, 
if it is not silence?”
Other than that, we sit.

Son of pride,
the narrator dies of vertigo.


Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 9-8-08 (9:36 AM)


On Monday September 8 at 2:52 PM Stephen Vincent wrote:

“...If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it
would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel’s heart beat, and
we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.”  George Eliot  (Source?)



I suspect John Cage would have loved this quote. I certainly do. As I suspect some other 
'listeners' here, too. 



It was quoted  by Prof. Charles Liu in his honors class at CUNY as reported in a story in 
today's NY Times.



Stephen V