1. I knew it would be necessary to concentrate my attention on world improvement, to eliminate from my mind all thoughts about art. Contemporary Chinese arts are timely advertisements for the revolution, not significant expressions of it. Fortunately I had listened when Jasper Johns said, “I can imagine a society without any art at all, and it is not a bad society.”

    -John Cage

     

  2. “Why’d you hit him in the first place?”

    “I didn’t. I only hit him when he hit me back.”

    -John Cage

     

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  5. On your right-hand side, you have my dad, chililng’n’smoking at a hotel room in Hawai’i:

    On your left-hand side, you have my mom, her brother, and her dad (my grandfather); the person who is wearing an eye-patch is mom.

     

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  7. Wow! Excavated from my bookshelf. Super 懐かしい!!