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Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy

Freedom from likes and dislikes, the sudden sense of identification, the spirit of comedy (John Cage, M: Writings ’67-’72)

There’s some comfort in seeing things go on; birds keep singing, buses keep running. But if you want those things to continue, perhaps you have to accept that the other kinds of things, unhappier, even horrific ones, will continue too. And that’s harder

One of the things that’s interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they’re putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I’m about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down

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