Indeterminacy 128

(Pieter Brueghel the Elder)

In 1960
I received a letter from
a university president
giving me an
appointment for the following academic
year.
I called Mother
to tell her the good news.

I said,
“I’m
to be a Fellow in the Center
for Advanced Studies at Wesleyan
University.”
Mother said,
“Why
are they always connecting you
with the dance?”

Then, after a pause,

she added,
“Do they
know you’re a Zen Buddhist?”

- John Cage