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Kwang-tse
 points    out
      that    a    beautiful
                     woman


     who    gives
          pleasure

                      to    men



                                                       
serves                                                 only
                                                to   
frighten

            the    fish


                                        when     she
jumps
                                  in     the     water.





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Indeterminacy . text © John Cage

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Transcript of story 21, Indeterminacy... Ninety Stories by John Cage, With Music, ca. 20'00" to 21'00" (shown)
From John Cage's Lecture ‘Indeterminacy’, 20'00" to 21'00", in Die Reihe No. 5, English edition, p.119 (1961, Theodore Presser Co., ed. Herbert Eimert and Karlheinz Stockhausen) (see this variant)
From “How to Pass, Kick, Fall, and Run”, A Year from Monday, p.136 (see this variant)