GRGR(30): You will want cause and effect.

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Tue Jul 4 15:54:26 CDT 2000



On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, desert search for techno allah wrote:
> 
> In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
> If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually
> one discovers that it's not boring at all but very interesting.
>                 - John Cage


Now THAT's postmodernist.

The boring segment in the Video Jameson describes lasts 21 minutes. 
I put the book back on the shelf and don't want to look for the passage 
again but the idea was that 21 minutes isn't a very long time to put
to a good purpose.

			P.




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