Martin Striz (striz1@MARSHALL.EDU)
Tue, 2 Dec 1997 06:02:45 +0100
Bodvar, great quotes!
>PS. The Pirsig quotations is a good idea, another thing that I have
>been thinking about is an index - or "concordance", i.e: where to find
>pages (in LILA preferably) where Pirsig treats this and that issue and
>mentions so and so word. Is it possible to make such a one by use of
>computer?
Do you mean like a search engine for Lila? I have no idea how to make
that;
someone skilled in database management and java scripting could probably
figure it out.
I also have a suggestion, and I take it from when Mark Murdock and I
first
began corresponding in the spring. He was the first person I ever
talked
about the MOQ with who knew a lot about it, and I may have been the same
for
him, so we decided to sort of teach each other what we knew. We began
by
discussing pertinent issues in society and how the MOQ could solve them,
or
at least lead us in the right direction. Is capital punishment Good?
If
so, in what situations? How about abortion or euthanasia or adultery?
(Pirsig obviously believes there is value in extramarital affairs so
long as
they don't break up marriages.)
However, I fear we may not be ready for these kinds of discussions yet.
I
know Mark and I certainly were not ready. :-) I don't think we solved
anything because our views of the MOQ conflicted, and then our bout with
Idealism virtually killed the correspondence. So, we may have to hold
off
because there are obviously still some conflicts in our interpretations
of
the MOQ, but it is something we could discuss eventually.
Martin
P.S. I always like the line in the last paragraph of Lila that reads
"Good
is a noun." That helped put Quality into perspective. Quality is not
an
adjective, it does not adhere to an object or help it out, it IS the
object.
And it's you and me, too.
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