Thanks for reminding me of this---i feel like this most of the time, especially
when writing poems---then i seem to end up with a poem anyway...wtf?
bliss
l
Jim Piat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Thomas savage
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:18 PM
Subject: Re: Very short lecture by John Cage
In a video interview John Cage did toward the end of his life, he said:
"I have nothing to say and I am saying it" and smiled his beautiful smile into
the camera. This statement seems to be, to me, if not the sole essence of
Cage's program, at least one of them. I say that as someone who has
listened to his music most of my life, taught his poems to my students, and
who met him once. His memory and his example mean a great deal to me.
Regards, Tom Savage
Dear, dear Tom,
That's a saying a lot. Reminds me of Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground
(everything I like does)and that famous line from Judgment at Nuremburg "I
was aware".
I worked for a few years in state prisons -- that line haunts me. But
mostly because of what I know of myself. God bless John Cage for exposing
another one last truth. We are all aware, we all know it and there is
nowhere to hide. Say what we will. There is nothing more or less to say
and he said it -- but I just like repeating it for the feel of it in my
mouth.
Best wishes--
Lewis LaCook
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