…there is a composition by John Cage called Imaginary Landscapes #4 for twelve radios. Two performers sit at each radio, one controlling the volume, the other the station dial . . . each performer has specific instructions concerning what to do at each moment with the knob . . . he or she controls . . . The conductor is admonished to be very strict. There is a story in circulation about a performance in Town Hall, New York, in which one of the radios caught strains of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and someone in the audience yelled ‘Leave it on.’
- Leo Tresler, ‘History & music’ in New Literary History 21/2, 1990
The language is
not like throwing a sweater over the topography of referents. Rather it is like
light, without which color itself would not be possible, let alone shape,
perspective & a whole host of other features. Our language & what we
know of it is not separable from the world that shines through.
-
Ron Silliman
Colouring the
world is always a means of denying it.
-
Roland Barthes, Mythologies
Critics will never
rate you ABOVE the estimate you give yourself: If he says he's dumb I'd be
stupid to ignore him, I guess is the thought process.
-
Ken Bolton
My will to live
completely overcame my desire to win.
- Alfred Hajos, German winner of
the 1896 Athens Olympic long distance swim, held in icy four metre high seas a
kilometer off Piraeus. Many contestants had to be rescued.
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