Hi Y'all: Just wanted to say how much I enjoyed the various responses to the Nov topic on how Lila has impacted our lives...for once something wasn't totally "over my head". The topic also "personalized" the group to a degree, and personality is a Good thing. Years ago I met a lovely young woman at a party, one of those magical moments when the two of you just "click" and you feel like this is Ms. Right and we'll be together forever in wondrous bliss and there must be a God because life has turned into a Paradise and we are Adam and Eve and will live off the aura of our love for each other and our wondrous Creator...so I was bouncing off the clouds the next couple of days and attempting to refrain from calling too early because I didn't want to appear desperate and I learned long ago that chicks hate "desperate", though desperate was I...anyway I finally called and was horrified to realize I had either written down the wrong number (I had had a few drinks which I always needed to exhibit some semblance of gaiety and mask my usual somber demeanor) or she gave me the wrong number on purpose...but I knew this was fate of the highest order, or classification, and numerous calls to numerous friends and acquaintances produced no knowledge of this mysterious angel so I was sure my life was over it was just a matter of what method and a couple months later I'm walking in the Mall and from a distance I see a fairly attractive woman and I'm wanting to "check her out" without appearing too indiscreet. As she approaches I felt my heart, nay my whole Being, leap with delight as I realized "It's HER!!! My God it's HER!!!" And I knew that all would be right with the universe. The point is, that's kind of how I felt when I was perusing the Philo section of Barnes and Noble a few years ago and the chartreuse-colored copy of Lila materialized before me. I knew it wasn't ZAMM but it had to be Pirsig!!! I was like "he's BACK!!!" It was that same sense of recognition of something familiar, something really good. Clarke P.S. She dumped me less than a month later (it's hard to hide that somber nature forever) but I still have Lila. MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org Mail Archive - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/ MD Queries - [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at: http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html
