From: C.L. Everett (seaelle@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 13 2005 - 18:33:03 BST
On 8/12/05, Richard Loggins <brloggins@yahoo.com> wrote:
Pirsig saw the green flash. Did you see the green flash? - Rich
Well, I don't recall a green flash. Pirsig said something like: . . . to
look at an insane man is not to see him at all. To see him you have to see
what he saw. Pirsig didn't need to write Lila for me. Lila just takes the
analytic knife to quality--something "I thought" the ZMM Pirsig refused to
do.
When I first read ZMM, decades ago, I felt that what was already in my head
was being "languaged"--named and explicated. ZMM was a one-of-a-kind work of
brilliance (and sweat and torture) that is a model of what good writing (and
good philosophy) should be, at least to me.
Why was I terrified reading ZMM? My maternal grandmother was "diagnosed and
treated" as a paranoid skitzophrenic which I did not find out about until I
was grown. I was around the age when they say skitzophrenia kicks in, if
it's going to, when I read ZMM. Each time I got to the passage, "those
eyes!" I'd have to put it down--I knew what was coming. I must have started
it over 4 or 5 times. I was afraid he was going to take me with him and he
did. Was it Vonnegut who said the only ones for me are the mad ones, mad to
live, mad to die?
-- C.L. Everett "The life of a warrior cannot possibly be cold and lonely and without feelings because it is based on his affection, his devotion, his dedication to his beloved. And who, you may ask, is his beloved? This earth, this world. For a warrior there can be no greater love." ~ Tales Of Power, Carlos Castaneda ~ MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archives: Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
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