Silence by which John Cage means unintended, indeterminate noise, in written form here includes: autobiographical fragments as Zen koan--blank pages as "white paintings" of the mind--anecdotes of Schonberg and Suzuki--celebrations of Satie, Varese, Rauschenberg, private friends, mushrooms--and words and spaces on Meister Eckhardt-Zen-Dada-the Random Chaso-composition by hexagram, coin-tossing, paper fly specks-composition for prepared piano, magnetic tape, Happenings-Silence heard as the 13th tone-musc as space-time transformation-theindeterminacy of modern science-the one-in-all order-in-chaos and the (musical) read is (Cagian) silence.