RE: MD And now for something not very different at all

From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Fri Jul 18 2003 - 22:24:10 BST

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    I seem to remember De Weese being encouraged to "sculp" a rotisserie too.

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    [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of Valence
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    Subject: Re: MD And now for something not very different at all

    Hey Scott, Squonk, and all,
    I don't want to get involved in this debate at any other level, but....

    > > squonk: Rationality is an art in my view.

    SCOTT
    > "In your view". This is not a common view. It has its point, but Pirsig
    > never subsumed rationality to art.

    R
    Umm, Scott... did you happen to catch the title of Pirsig's first book?
    "Zen and the ART of Motorcycle Maintenance". In the first two pages of
    pt.2, ch.8 of that book, Pirsig explains that he is using "motorcycle
    maintenance" as a down-to-Earth example of 'rationality'. That is, for all
    intents and purposes, the title of the book could have been "Zen and the Art
    of Rationality". So (rare as the occasion may be), I'm going to have to
    agree with Squonk on this point.

    take care
    rick

    Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare. - H. Martineau

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