A series of
stories by
20th century composer John Cage. They include
jokes,
anecdotes, and
random thoughts. If you read or hear enough of them they being to resemble
Zen koans and are often quite jarring
non sequiturs. They are scattered over several
books and
records. He would often deliver them as
lectures or accompanied by
music or
dance. He varied the speed in which he read them so each story, no matter how long or short the
text, would be one
minute long, and the strange text format of some of them often reflects the pacing.
Indeterminacy is now finished! You don't have to read it in order; Cage wouldn't have wanted it that way. Just click on one of the soft links below or type in Indeterminacy followed by a number between one and 186 and see what happens. Chance can be fun.