Retird Intros --
Here is the home for the retired introductions, brief, often indecipherable poetry/prose hybrids that can be found at http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/frankish/main.html and change at various intervals. Explanations will come shortly.
"what is music?"
chair falls.
"that -- that is noise. not rhythm.
perhaps. perhaps if many chairs, thrown
one at a time or with a regular thud...perhaps:
music.
but one chair? noise."
hand rises.
"yes, ha -- hannah?"
"but isn't music
subjective? like, like, the
composer John...John -- John, uh --"
friend whispers:
"(john cage.)"
rant persists.
"yeah, the composer John Cage, he has installments
which are just silence...just quiet.
who has the right to say that's not. not music?"
teacher nods.
"that's an outside fringe."
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