Ant, Well, reading this or that particular section would be different than reading out the novel as a whole. I already own the AHP tapes.
Marsha On Mar 17, 2013, at 8:00 PM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> wrote: > > Marsha, > > Of course, (though I think you already know this) the 1993 AHP Conference > tapes has Pirsig reading out sections from LILA (and ZMM too). A link to buy > the copy of the tapes can be found on the following page: > > ( http://robertpirsig.org/AHP%20Transcript%201.htm ) > > Best wishes, > > Ant > > ---------------------------------------- > > Marsha asked on St.Patrick's Day, 2013: > > > Hi Ant, > > Having spent many years sailing on Long Island Sound, I had a very visceral > connection with descriptions of the 'boat', but generally, having once read > 'The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of > Knowledge' by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann, I was more interested in > static patterns of value than the characters. I've always wondered how the > tone of the book would be different if RMP had read it rather than the man > who was recorded. Would his own voice have emphasized explanation, examples > and characters in the book differently? > > Marsha > > > >> On Mar 17, 2013, at 7:09 PM, Ant McWatt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Marsha said to DMB March 16th 2013: >>> >>> >>> "In LILA, I didn't think the Captain, Rigel or Lila were very attractive >>> characters. The best aspect of the book, I thought, was the metaphysics." > > >>> Ant McWatt comments: >>> >>> Marsha, >>> >>> I thought the idol (the discarded doll of Lila's that Phaedrus gives a >>> burial to) at the end of LILA is quite a character though. (As we >>> discovered on my recent visit, the audio version of Pirsig's second book >>> really brings out its cynical, dark humour. It provides a nice summary of >>> the story as well). >>> >>> Moreover, the Captain's boat (which represents the inorganic level of the >>> MOQ) is also, according to Pirsig at least, a certain aspect of his own >>> character (as Phaedrus, Rigel and Lila all are). However, with people >>> naturally tending to be human-centric rather than Quality-centric, they >>> tend to overlook good old Arete (not that I think the name of the boat is >>> actually given) when reading the book. >>> >>> Best wishes, >>> >>> Ant > > > 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
