Mr. Krimel, I saw that movie with my hubby last night and it gave me a pause to consider how much this tale has whispered into the ears of America. Dorothy, Toto and the witches.
Quick and dirty for me would be the balloon scene in "Oz the Great and > Powerful." James Franco's, Oz rides the tornado much like Dorothy did. He > ducks inside the balloon's basket as the detritus of Kansas is sucked from > the earth and spun into the air. Jagged edges and spiked limbs shoot past, > piercing the wicker. And then. All of a sudden there is calm. Oz rides a > sweet spot. He is in the groove; in the flow. Random object float before > him, weightless. The Wizard has time to flow between terror to wonder. As > he > reaches out to touch a bit of flotsam, he is slammed back into to side of > his basket and once again hurled into the wind. > > There, I see Quality. > A higgly-piggly punctuate by intermittent moments of suspension and > wonder. > Quality is in terror of the storm and the awe of its eye. > If I say Quality for me, is when the curtain is parted and the wizard is seen for what he is, an ordinary man, is that the same thing? For to me there is a terror and awe in things as they truly be, apart from our dreamings and fantasies. It's that glimpse behind the curtain. I see you indulge in a little curtain lifting below... > As to the "textual evidence" produced to show the essential goodness of DQ. > Let me offer what I think is the most compelling evidence for the utter > ambiguity of DQ, the horror of it, its inexplicable attraction and > repulsion. I offer the woman Lila. She is DQ. > > She is promiscuous, depressed and in the end a danger to herself and > others. > It is easy to read into both of Pirsig's tales a certain nobility in > insanity. His madman sees the world as no one has before. His crazy bitch > is > a religion of one. Foucault sees madness as a social disease and Thomas > Szasz claims it doesn't exist. It all sound lovely at a distance. But > madness isn't imaginary. It is a living hell. And for, far too, many; death > has seemed the better path. > > In her lucid moments Lila breaks up homes and sleeps her way across a > continent . When we meet her, she is cleaning herself where, a man she > thinks is dirty, "had been at her last night." Still she is hoping for a > boat ride and a couple meals. > > She schemes to steal, smuggle and murder; she cycles through phases of > indifference and absorption in every bad thing that has happened in a life > full of bad things. And yet she has this Dynamic Quality Pirsig can never > quite put his finger on. > > Only in fiction could Lila's Dynamic Quality seem noble, desirable, or > mystical. But it is surely irrational, chaotic and terrifying. > Yup. I agree. but that's sex for ya. carrie 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
