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Small, single-spaced footnotes that permeate the text--some for pages at a time--do little to aid the book's flow...
...placement of text in these footnotes appears arbitrary. Topics discussed in the footnotes are just as tangential as the those in the body of the text: Baker might as well have written the whole book in footnotes...
...book reads well, despite annoying parenthetical injections of "comic" editorial opinion. These appear only in the first few chapters--evidently the author later realizes he can incorporate them into the body of the text. But the story lacks the creativity of the original novels: Only dedicated fans will maintain an interest...
Cage's lectures are readings of strings of phrases randomly assembled by computer out of sources Cage selects. The program is based on the "I Ching" principle, taken from an ancient Chinese text on the mechanisms of chance...
...title of yesterday's lecture, "Method Structure Intention Discipline-Notation Indeterminacy Interpenetration Imitation Devotion Circumstance-Variable-Structure Nonunderstanding-Contingeny Performance," was taken from Cage's 1981 text Composition in Retrospect...