Indeterminacy 22

When
Sri Ramakrishna

was asked

why,

if God is good,

is there evil
in the world,



he replied,




“To
thicken


the plot.”

- John Cage

Indeterminacy 18

(Lucas Cranach der Ältere)

Question or not (that is to
say, whether what
I will do will answer the
situation), my problems
have become social rather than
musical. Was
that what Sri Ramakrishna
meant when he said to the
disciple who asked him
whether he should give up music
and follow him,
“By no means.
Remain a
musician.
Music is a means
of rapid transportation to
life
everlasting”?
And in a
lecture I gave at Illinois,
I added,
“To life,

period.”

- John Cage