Richard Fleming - Evil and Silence: Philosophical Exercises, Socrates to Cage
Morton Feldman and John Cage (University at Buffalo)
Kyle Gann from PostClassic writes about the forthcoming book of his former colleague Richard Fleming, a philosophy professor at Bucknell University. The book is titled Evil and Silence: Philosophical Exercses, Socrates to Cage, and tells the following funny anecdote about Cage:
Fleming visited Cage late in his life, and asked how he was doing. «Well, I’m just fine,» Cage replied, «but all my neighbors in my apartment building are very upset.» «Why is that?» «The fire alarm broke last night,» Cage explained, «and rang all night. No one would come to fix it, and none of my neighbors got any sleep.» «Then why are you all right?,» Fleming asked. «Well,» replied Cage, «I just lay there and worked the sound of the fire alarm into my thoughts and into my dreams, and I slept just fine.»
Keep an eye on PostClassic for the publication date.
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