*yawn*, not that old shit
On Nov 28, 2007 9:24 PM, joe green <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sorry, just seem like cliches to me. Been through that...no there there.
> I'll reread King Lear instead. Especially the last few lines.
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> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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