Nice one. As well as reinforcing the picture of the DeWeeses as Bob (Pirsig) knew them, and many "Pilgrims" had discovered since, it is interesting that Ray Campeau also chooses to tell the Eleanor Roosevelt anecdote - to suggest that Bozeman was "ultra-conservative" at the time Bob (and Bob) moved there. Consistent with the school records (no longer on-line, but) as documented also by Lundqvist's article - the origin of Pirsig's joke that it was easy for him to be branded a radical.
Does anyone know of any corroboration from Roosevelt's own bio - or whether this may be an in-joke perpetuated by re-telling amongst this artistic / intellectual group ? The thing I still find fascinating is how short Pirsig was actually there in Bozeman - how much of an impression the DeWeese's made and the whole Sarah / quality / radical English teaching episodes all happened in that period. He'd already left Bozeman before his paper was delivered to the RMMLA Modern Languages association. And he'd already been politically active enough at the school, beyond his radical teaching "experiment", for this to be recorded. Regards Ian On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:30 PM, david buchanan <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Bozeman Daily Chronicle published an article about Pirsig's old friends... > > http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/100/newsmakers/article_1c0afdfc-2ebe-11e1-b4ab-001871e3ce6c.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 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
