When I Speak Of "cycles," I Am

Questioning The Nature And Implications Of Liminal Instances Necessarily Involves Failure, If Only In The Specifically Technical Sense Of Entering Spaces Where Prevailing Criteria Of Success Scarcely Apply.

The Western Musical Canon Came About Not Merely By Accumulation, But By Opposition And Subversion, Both To The Ruling Powers On Whom Composers Depended For Their Livelihoods And To Other Musics.

I Suppose That The Scope And Implications Of Such Forces Have Rendered My Personal Accounting Ritual Pretty Much Obsolete. That's How Things Sometimes Go.

If The Work Of Art Is To Continue Pursuing The Vision Of Both Being In And Of The World But Nevertheless In Some Fashion Being More Than Just One More Object To The Mounting Clutter, This Is The Specific Point, I Think, Where This Must Be Assured.

There Would Seem To Be A Limit, Even For An Art Preoccupied With Boundaries And Transgressions, Beyond Which A Work Reaches Its Breaking Point And Becomes An Actual Failure, A Mere Experimentation.