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Silence: Lectures and Writings

Silence: Lectures and Writings is a book by American experimental composer John Cage , first published in 1961 by Wesleyan University Press. Silence is a collection of essays and lectures Cage wrote during the period from 1939 to 1961. The contents of the book is as follows:


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“The world is teeming; anything can happen.”

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

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