On Nov 14, 2010, at 10:03 PM, david buchanan wrote: > > dmb says: > Thanks, Arlo. I'm going to share a quote from Pirsig that nobody here has > ever seen. It was something he said over a year ago and I've been sitting on > it ever since. Ant and I were getting into the car to go over to Oxford's > campus for the MOQ study day when he handed me something he'd printed from > the internet and said something like, "Hey Dave, take a look at this". He > found it on the website of Pirsig's English publishers. > > "I'm very pleased to know that Dr. Anthony McWatt and David Buchanan will be > speaking at Oxford. They are the two foremost philosophers today on the > Metaphysics of Quality and its implications for the guidance of humanity. > General public understanding of this metaphysical system is still in its > infancy and they deserve the careful, open-minded attention that early > proponents of any idea need." (Robert Pirsig, October 2009) > > That seems a little over the top even to me. David Granger, whose Ph.D. > thesis has been published as the book titled "John Dewey, Robert Pirsig, and > the Art of Living", is certainly one of the foremost philosophers of the MOQ > and he's certainly foremoster than me. But still. If there is anyone that can > be a judge of who gets it and who doesn't, it's Pirsig. > > Okay. Let the shit storm begin. I can just see how well this will be received > by people like Mark and Marsha. As usual, they will be gracious and charming > and they'll take it in exactly the spirit it was given. (Yes, I'm dripping > with sarcasm.)
Marsha: Mr. Pirsig is a good man. ___ 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
