From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Nov 05 2003 - 19:21:05 GMT
>From: "Joe" <jhmau@sbcglobal.net>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
>Subject: Re: MD When is an interpretation not an interpretation?
>Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 11:51:50 -0800
>
>
>joe: i have been lurking and reading. Kudos to you and Matt for an
>enlightening thread. Kudos also to Dan Glover for his efforts.
>Congratualtions to Ant McWatt on his thesis.
>
>I have read Pirsig and Lila's Child, and I stand more in awe at the
>revolution of thinking they foster. A philosophical outlook is emerging
>which is kind and complete to my way of thinking. Thank You!
>
Hi Joe
You're welcome, and thank you! When I began the Lila's Child project in
1999, I had no intention of actually publishing the book. I look back fondly
on that first winter of culling posts from the archives and organizing them
as best I could. I don't think I've ever had so much intellectual fun before
that winter, or since. And I still find it rather unbelievable that Robert
Pirsig just happened across the original Lila's Child website in the summer
of 2000, and even more astounding that he liked it enough to write to Bodvar
about it, finally offering to share his annotations.
I was very pleased to see a reference to Hemmingway in Anthony McWatt's MOQ
PhD Textbook. When everything seemed to be going wrong with the LC project
(the book was actually called Lila's Daughter at that time) and confusion
was the norm, I took time off and just happened to pick up A Moveable Feast
(Hemmingway may not be my favorite author but he is in the top 10).
When I read the passage Anthony cites: "All you have to do is write one true
sentence. Write the truest sentence you know," I didn't take it to mean true
as opposed to false, or accurate as opposed to inaccurate. I took it to mean
that one sentence was just where it belonged. That may sound as if it is
opposed to a sentence not belonging but no, that's not what I mean. A
sentence belongs in the best place, and if an author finds the best place
for a sentence, there is no alternative. That's what I think Hemmingway
meant, and that's what I took to heart when I returned to work on Lila's
Child. It's just knowing something is right, like when the name Lila's Child
occurred to me.
Thanks again for your support,
Dan
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