Doug Renselle (renselle@on-net.net)
Sat, 20 Sep 1997 18:12:19 +0100
Diana,
Congratulations!!!
Pirsig says YES, resoundingly! And he says, IMO, MoQ values its own
extension.
If he had said it is inextensible, I would cry foul! MoQ must practice
ESSs.
Again, I am very happy for you and for TLS.
Doug Renselle.
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Diana McPartlin wrote:
> More additions to the Forum page: quotes from Eugen Herrigel's Zen in
> the Art of Archery, Doug's review of Lila and, by popular demand,
> Platt's "Say Hello to Now."
>
> The only new bio is Gene's, we have a few other new subscribers but no
>
> details yet.
>
> I got an email about the Lila Squad from Robert M Pirsig. Sadly he
> declined to join the list but here are his comments:
>
> "I stumbled across your stunning Athens Forum site last night and
> called
> Wendy to the computer. When we had finished reading it all we took out
> a
> bottle of cognac and celebrated. The MOQ is at last out of my hands.
> Other people are at last sustaining it on a continuing social basis. I
>
> can disappear tomorrow and it will keep on going. This is a major
> event
> in its history.
>
> All day I've wondered how much I should participate, and the Zen
> answer
> keeps repeating itself: "Don't! You will just shut everyone else up.
> They'll all sit back and wait for the great author to speak and that
> is
> the worst thing that could happen." The material for the MOQ is not
> something I invented out of thin air. It has been lying dormant within
>
> the culture for centuries. I have mined probably less than one per
> cent
> of what is there. The best readers will pay minimal attention to what
> I
> have found and maximal attention to what I have missed. That's where
> the
> excitement is."
>
> I think that's a thumbs up :-)
>
> Diana
>
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