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

[desert search for techno allah]

Paul Mackin writes:
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>On Tue, 4 Jul 2000, desert search for techno allah wrote:
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>> 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. Eventuall
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>> one discovers that it's not boring at all but very interesting.
>>                 - John Cage
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>Now THAT's postmodernist.
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>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.

So if you're going to be boring, then you've got to be really boring?




Josh

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