Yvonne Rainer, Muciz Lover

摘要

As an epigraph, I quote a quotation of a quotation—Yvonne Rainer/ John Cage/Arnold Schoenberg. Rainer: John Cage's famous story may be relevant here: After I had been studying with him for two years, Schonberg said, "In order to write music you must have a feeling for harmony." I then explained to him that I had no feeling for harmony. He then said that I would always encounter an obstacle, that it would be as though I came to a wall through which I could not pass. I said, "In that case I will devote my life to beating my head against that wall." In my case, lacking a "feeling" for plot and character, the essentials of traditional narrative, I have devoted much of my career to banging my head against that wall— with no expectations, I should add, of gaining entrance to a narrative mainstream, but rather to wrestle with its prescriptions.