[Dixielandjazz] The 100 most important American Songs of
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Bill Gunter
jazzboard at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 13 19:31:49 PDT 2004
Hi all,
Bill Biffle writes (regarding my assessment of John Cage's 4'33"):
>I think the point of Cage was to make us examine what we thought music was.
Good point . . . May I now offer some considerations to help you examine
what you thought nutrition was . . .
The old, pathetic, worn-out traditional concept of nutrition involving food
which you would eat by masticating and swallowing certain items normally
served at mealtime (meat, vegetables, dairy products, scotch, etc.) and then
digesting them so that they provide elements necessary for the survival of
the human body is now replaced by an exciting new approach.
I now offer you an entirely new concept to bring that old discarded notion
of nutrition into sharper focus. Here is a plate upon which absolutely
nothing is placed! Contemplate it. Consider the various nutritional
elements you are now forced to ponder. Write lengthy paragraphs extolling
the beauty of this concept. Say things like "That meal gave me the most
intensive introspection on the nature of food that I have yet encountered."
"It has caused me to regard nutrition in an entirely different light."
If that broadens your definition of food then OK, too.
Cheers,
Bill
jazzboard at hotmail.com
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