Notas para uma Teoria do Encanto [3]: Lecture on Nothing (1950)

​The text is printed in four columns to facilitate a rhythmic reading. Each line is to be read across the page from left to right […]. This should not be done in an artificial manner (which might result from an attempt to be too strictly faithful to the position of the words on the page), but with the rubato which one uses in everyday speech.

                              John Cage. Silence. Lectures and Writings. Middletown: Wesleyan University Press. 1961.