[Ian] It was Goodall's review of Frentz that made the "latter day Robert Pirsig" reference, not Frentz' own work.
[dmb] Goodall says Frentz's biographical book is "the story of a latter day Robert Pirsig-inspired Phaedrus" and the subtitle of said book contains the phrase "quest for quality". How is that NOT a reference to "Frentz' own work"? What else could he be referring to? Or are you saying that Goodall is interesting because he's "making a Pirsig connection" to the book even though the book is not really connected to Pirsig? He didn't find that connection in the book but fabricated the connection himself? [Arlo] For the record, I checked this out of the library the other day (its a good read), but the author (Frentz) explicitly makes the Pirsig connection himself. "Echoing Robert M. Pirsig's charge in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, this narrative is my own quest for living a high quality life, both personally and professionally" (p.13) And, to avoid lines of quote, in the Index, under both Phaedrus and Pirsig, are 28 separate pages listed, many in multiple page format (e.g., 20-22). There are five more pages listed under "Church of Reason". So, I'd say Frentz's connection to Pirsig is without a doubt both deliberate and explicit in his book. As an aside, Frentz opens up Chapter 1 with a quote from Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces". So there's that explicit link as well. 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
