Indeterminacy X2

Just before Christmas I
visited my mother who lives
in a nursing home.
(Two years ago she
suffered a severe heart attack
which left her physically
helpless.) I told her I’d
written three texts on world
improvement.
She said,
“John!
How dare you?
You should be ashamed!”
Then she added,
“I’m surprised at
you.”
I asked her, in view
of world conditions,
whether she didn’t think
there was room for improvement.
She
said, “There
certainly is.
It makes good sense.”

- John Cage