"Comforting" to hear you've already made the connection. If your memoir is commercially available post a link. Otherwise forward anything you want Bob to see, with any letter of introduction.
Regards Ian On 29 May 2014 16:58, "Michael R. Brown" <[email protected]> wrote: > Watts is a wonder. One of the loveliest stylists - something extremely > *comforting* about him. He ministers. > > His "The Way of Zen" is beyond fantastic. And I have a copy of his "Cloud > Hidden, Whereabouts Unknown" on my bedside table. > > I worked Watts' presence around the inception and the aftermath of the > climax of my '09 memoir "She and I: A Fugue", which ends on the tribute to > Pirsig - after I drive past the Zen monastery where Chris' ashes are (and > me looking out on the Golden Gate he and Chris would have ridden across > after the end of ZAMM). > > If anyone's interested, I can post the passages ... I do need to get a > copy to RMP - can anyone tell me how? > > > MRB > > On 5/29/2014 9:10 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > 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
