Yeah, you might have me there. I hope not most of my posts, but I do think that a different style would behoove certain modes of conversation. I'd like to hope I'm a good reader of differing genres and styles, but I also hope to balance a stylistic egalitarianism with an understanding of how form impacts content. If that deserves a wow, then I guess.
> From: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:07:36 -0500 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MD] The Hero's journey > > No Matt, not authoritarian. I consider most of your posts to be your project > to gloss your style to the point of magniloquence. > > Marsha > > On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Matt Kundert wrote: > > > > > Well, I don't know, Marsha. If one dancer is trying to slow dance > > and the other is trying to salsa, isn't okay sometimes for one person > > to speak up and say, "Why don't you pick a dance that we can both > > dance to..."? > > > > Why did you read me as being authoritarian? > > > > And what is the virtue of the stuck-state of Dan and I's conversation? > > Being stuck can be good, as you quote Pirsig, but I think it will only > > seem that way retrospectively, after one has figured out just how, in > > fact, that it was a true and profound stuckness, and not just regular > > stuckness. If you can see how to transcend my inability to > > understand how Dan conceives of the philosophical area we've been > > discussing, in a way that Dan recognizes as the area he's been trying > > to occupy, then I'm all ears. I haven't found it, and so am not sure > > whether this is profound or regular. > > > > If I misunderstood the import of your remarks, I apologize. > > > > Matt > > > >> From: [email protected] > >> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:32:21 -0500 > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [MD] The Hero's journey > >> > >> On Dec 11, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Matt Kundert wrote: > >>> > >>> Hey Dan, > >>> [I began this post before you finished your own reply--you'll see the > >>> change-over, and perhaps the reason why I didn't reconfigure my > >>> response.] > >> > >> Matt, > >> > >> Wow, the conversation goes forward, but by your determination of format? > >> > >> "If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off > >> than when it was loaded with ideas" > >> (RMP, ZAMM, Chapter 24) > >> > >> Marsha > > > 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 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
