Hi folks, Spurred by two entirely coincidental references to Alan Watts turning up in the last couple of days. (Donovan bio-doc and the Beats / San Fran / City Lights / Maharishi / Beatles / Mike Love connections and some recent Alan Watts quotes by Brain Pickings ....)
I was checking out Alan Watts and it occurred to me I'd not heard him mentioned in our Pirsig context. Pirsig mentions being "impressed by the early beats" before the hippies lost their way, and before the ZMM trip - I know he's referenced On The Road and Howl. But Watts "The Way of Zen" (1959) was de-rigeur reading for the beats migrating from NYC to San Fran. And during the 1968 ZMM trip Watts was still living on his houseboat in SanFran when Pirsig visited the Zen Centre there after he'd put Chris on a train home. (Watts died in 1973 before ZMM was published.) Anyone know of any Pirsig / Watts connections ? Ian 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
