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When John Cage died

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Mar 07, 2022
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I thought about the composer John Cage’s fatal stroke as you would think about chance operations, which he used in much of his work. 

So many possibilities of what can happen at every moment of one’s life, and at each instant the fates are rolling dice, or consulting their I Ching, or whatever their method is.  And the operation each time involves the p…

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