Marsha to Andre: 'The printed text of a book is thus like a musical score, which is not itself music, but becomes music when played by musicians, or "interpreted" by them, as we say'.
Andre: Problem is Marsha, you are not 'interpreting' the text. You are changing it. By saying DQ=sq you are undermining Pirsig's MOQ. By substituting, to use a static example, all B flat's into B sharp's you are altering the composer's intention and you'd have to change all notes to keep them harmonious. (Not that I know a great deal about composing music but you get the drift). There is nothing intrinsically wrong with doing that. You can transcribe it into a completely different key as far as I am concerned, alter the beats from 4/4 to 3/4 or 2/4 but don't attribute the result to the composer. We are here talking about Mr.Pirsig's MOQ and not your own concoction of it which, as I suggested above, makes a mess of things. It renders it meaningless. 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
