RE: MD Biographical Timeline

From: Ian Glendinning (ian@psybertron.org)
Date: Sun Jul 20 2003 - 11:24:50 BST

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    Thanks for the feedback Rick, creating them was certainly a chore, and their
    value is as a framework from which to hang and link thoughts about the
    subject.

    (For example, if I hadn't done this I would not have spotted Richard Rorty's
    earlier encounter with the Hutchins Mob in Chicago, whose chairman so
    incensed Phaedrus. No doubt this is common knowledge amongst the
    officionados.)

    Anyway, in this form it is much easier than my earlier attempt to edit / add
    / correct if anyone discovers errors. (I still have nagging doubts for
    example about whether the bulk of what I have down as 1961 was actually
    1962, when Chris was "about 6" - in late 61 he was only just turning 5.)

    Ian

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    Subject: Re: MD Biographical Timeline

    Hey Ian,
    Nice job. You have the skeleton down pretty well. As you said when you
    first got here, Pirsig himself believes that a bio of the author helps add
    context to his work. I would be interested in hearing some of the
    conclusions you may have drawn from your biographical research. Moreover,
    I'd be interested to see those dates compared to other historically relevant
    timelines (ie. what was going in philosophy, what was going in politics, in
    academia, in psychology, etc).

    take care
    rick

    All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history,
    only biography. - R.W. Emerson

    > For any of you interested in the fruits of my more mundane recent
    > questioning, I've just posted an updated (and more importantly, corrected)
    > biographical timeline of a certain Robert M Pirsig linked to the ZMM Route
    > Map I'd already created.
    >
    > http://www.psybertron.org/2003_07_01_archive.html#105848284223545094

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