On 28 May 2009 at 10:48, John Carl wrote: > Has anyone here also read the whole collection by the same name and > especially The Day Superman Died - about Neal Cassady? > > Platt, you amazing, ever-spouting fount of Lila quotations you, where does > Pirsig mention Cassady? I remember, but I don't remember exactly what he > said and I can't find Lila to save my soul.
Hey John, Can't find anything on Cassady, but perhaps you're thinking of Cassidy. >From Chapter 3 or Lila: "Whether the American cowboy ever really was like William S. Boyd is not really relevant. What is relevant is that in the 1930s, during the darkest days of the Great Depression, Americans shoveled out millions of dollars to look at his movies. They didn't have to. Nobody forced them to. But they went anyway, just as they later went to see Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. They did so because those movies were a confirmation of the values they believed in. Those movies were rituals, almost religious rituals, for transmitting the cultural values of America to the young and reconfirming them in the old. It wasn't a deliberate, conscious process; people were just doing what they liked. It is only when one analyzes what they liked that one sees the assimilation of Indian values" Platt Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
