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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