“What Jung called ‘synchronicity’ (with the problems it raises of indeterminacy & the observer’s part in structuring the real) becomes a principle of composition: common link between such otherwise different modes as chance poetry, automatic writing, ‘deep’ image, projective verse, etc., & between those & the whole world of non-sequential & non-casual thought.”
Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. p. 490.
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“When you know that here there is no design, you know also that there is no chance: for it is only where there is a world of design that the word “chance” has a meaning. Let us be on our guard against saying that death is contrary to life. The living is only a species of dead being, and a very rare species. (Nietzsche 1960, p. 152-3)”
Yadegari, Shahrokh. "The Radif as a Basis for a Computer Music Model: Union of Philosophy and Poetry through Self-referentiality." PhD diss., University of California, San Diego, 2004. p. 138. and Nietzsche, F. Joyful Wisdom. New York: Frederick Ungar Publishing Co., 1960. pp. 152-3.
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“Perhaps it is the role of art to provide us with this chance that
is
Perhaps it is the role of art to put us in complicity with things
as they happen”
Hejinian, Lyn. Happily. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2000. p. 13.
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“I can always wait sometimes, other times impatience overcomes
me like a disease effacing the fingerprints of the naked
hand on my inner nature which chance bothered to put
there, beauty scratched out, and history answered in the
affirmative’
Hejinian, Lyn. Happily. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2000. p. 12.
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“I am among them thinking thought through the thinking
thought to no conclusion
Context is the chance that time takes
Our names tossed into the air scraped in the grass before”
Hejinian, Lyn. Happily. Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2000. p. 5.
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“Coyote and Ground Squirrel do not break the compact they have with each other that one must play predator and the other play game. In the wild a baby Black-tailed Hare gets maybe one free chance to run across a meadow without looking up. There won't be a second.”
Snyder, Gary. The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. p. 4.
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BeWild ReWild
“Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for the wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting.
NO!
That’s not for you!”
Seuss. Oh, the Places You’ll Go! London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2020.
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“In the early XXth century, dream (like drugs today) was turned-to to sanction the use of alternative, ‘non-logical’ thought-processes in poetry, painting, etc., until some realized that no such sanction was needed.”
Rothenberg, Jerome. Technicians of the Sacred a Range of Poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1969. p. 438.
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“The imprint of feet in the mud is the first writing of intentional existence. It is not by chance that the Minister of Houang-ti got the idea of writing from the tracks of birds in the sand.”
Munn, Henry. “Writing in the Imagination of an Oral Poet.” In Symposium of the Whole: A Range of Discourse toward an Ethnopoetics, edited by Jerome and Diane Rothenberg, 475. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1983.
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“A personal letter is in many cases more richly expressive than a tool; and a curse, a chance remark, a word said in passion, a folk tale and a novel—these are expressive indeed.”
Pearce, Roy Harvey. "Gesta Humanorum: Notes on the Humanist as Witness." Daedalus 99, no. 2 (1970): 435-50. Accessed July 19, 2021. p. 439.
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“The more deep listeners we have, the better chance of having a peaceful society.
Deep listening is part of a personal, and now communal, quest for peace.”
Oliveros, Pauline. "My "American Music": Soundscape, Politics, Technology, Community." American Music 25, no. 4 (Winter, 2007): 390-91. doi:10.2307/40071676. p. 401.
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“Social theory is historical theory, and history is the realm of chance in the realm of necessity. Therefore, among the various possible and actual modes of organizing and utilizing the available resources, which ones offer the greatest chance of an optimal development?”
Marcuse, Herbert. One-Dimensional Man. London: Routledge, 2002. p. xli.
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“ ‘A lot,’ she said, ‘but light that lantern and
stop thinking so much. You have no chance
of glimpsing the hem of laughing light so
long as you keep looking from left to right
instead of, yes, straight ahead! Look straight
ahead, plow through the cloud pillows, till
you come upon your rock jetty. Suck, and
you shall be nursed. Get it?’”
Howe, Fanny. Holy Smoke. New York: Fiction Collective, 1979. p. 57.
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“This casual indifference may well have been a reaction to the racist stance of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, for Washington also argued that
(c)olored women, quite as much as colored men, realize that if there is ever to be equal justice and fair play in the protection in the courts everywhere for all races, then there must be an equal chance for women as well as men to express their preference through their votes. 19”
Davis, Angela. Women, Race & Class. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1983. and Lerner, Gerda. Black Women in White America: A Documentary History. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 1972. p. 446.
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