Indeterminacy 179

While we were
sitting on top of
Slide Mountain
looking out
towards Cornell and
Wittenberg
and the Ashokan
Reservoir beyond,

Guy Nearing said
he had
known two women
who
were bitten by
copperheads.

“They were just
the same after
as before,”
he said,

“except
they were a
little more cranky.”

- John Cage