Just returned from walking Judy, our Collie, on the beach
and I was thinking about chance
How do you use chance in poetry - or art - art? Is it possible?
Well, you can throw a dice.
But to do that you first have to make a decision - so at best you're only
introducing
a slight chance element.
And the dice will give you six choices. But are they chance choices? How
will
you decide which each choice represents?
Even deciding to, say, write a poem in the first place -
that's not a chance decision is it?
For real chance to happen must you not give up control?
And even then, such a decision is not arrived at through chance - is it?
So what chance chance?
and I was also musing upon the role of chance in Fluxus generally
How important was it to the mainstream Fluxus artists?
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