Indeterminacy 164

While I was studying the frozen
food department of Gristede’s one
day, Mrs. Elliott
Carter came up and said,
“Hello, John.
I thought you
touched only fresh foods.”
I said, “All
you have to do is look at
them and then you come
over here.” She said,
“Elliott and I have
just gotten back from Europe.
We’d sublet
to some intellectuals whose
names I won’t mention.
They had been
eating those platters with
all sorts of food on them.”
I said,
“Not TV dinners?”
She said, “Yes,
I found
them stuffed around everywhere.”

- John Cage