On Jul 25, 2010, at 9:53 AM, X Acto wrote: > > > >> dmb continues:Notice how the narrator's speech is full of cliches and >> platitudes while Phaedrus is philosophical and far more interesting? It's >> hard >> to miss, unless one wants to miss it that is. I mean, quoting the narrator >> is >> risky business at best. He's the kinda the villain of the story, you know? >> Chris >> knows he's a phony and a pale shadow of his former self and that's what's >> killing him. The narrator is whoever you want him to be. He's spineless and >> everything he says is calculated to please. Unlike Phaedrus, he's dominated >> by >> social level values. Check out Pirsig's introduction to 25th anniversary >> edition >> (1999). That's how Pirsig characterizes him there and he does so in order to >> prevent misinterpretations of the book. >> > > > > Marsha: > If you watch again the latest dvd, RMP states clearly he doesn't really > remember > much before his hospitalization. Wouldn't those years before the > hospitalization be the Phaedrus years? > > > > Ron: > If he doesent remember much," Phaedrus" is mostly fiction then. >
Marsha: Often, Ron, I think Marsha is mostly fiction. How much fact is there in re-membering the past? I don't know for myself, so I would never judge with any certainty for someone else. ___ 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/md/archives.html
