In his text Lecture on Nothing, John Cage uses repetition and seemingly meaningless passages, among other things, as a means of making ‘nothing’ tangible. The text can be understood as a composed dialogue in which the same rhythmic structures are used as in Cage's musical compositions. This work makes the repetitive structures within the text visible. The original formatting of the text is discarded, and the text is left-aligned to fill the format. The text is then categorised into forty word groups. The first group contains all words that occur five times, the second group all words that occur six times, the third all words that occur seven times, and so on. The volume of the sounds determines which word groups become visible. The louder it gets, the more word groups overlap. The monospace font supports the visual impression of a rhythmic pattern and is reminiscent of Cage's mesostics.