Greetings, My thanks to the member who thought I might find this amusing: DIANA: "And, of course, Pirsig already has responded to LC. But of all the wonderful questions he could have answered, he responded with some very elementary remarks to that idiot Struan. Yet, who can blame him? When you read LC Dan has skewed things to make it look like Struan was the only one who ever questioned the MOQ. Not only is that completely untrue, but Struan's objections were badly thought-out, uninformed and unrepresentative of the group. All Struan ever did was be more rude than anyone else." Methinks Pirsig's opinion of which questions are worth answering on his own MoQ is significantly more interesting than Diana's opinion and, while it is certainly true that my objections were pretty badly thought out, there is no doubt that they remain by far the most dynamic and pertinent expressed on this forum to date. Pirsig seems to agree. Diana feels ignored and slighted (she never did understand my objections) so she takes it out on Dan's book by calling it 'crap', on me by calling me an 'idiot' and on Pirsig by portraying him as being 'no scholar, and . . . neither patient nor thorough in his works'. That Pirsig considers it worth reading and commenting on Dan's book and not on the rather dull, poorly expressed and trite questions raised in Diana's forum (if he were remotely interested or excited by it he could surely formulate just one response to the selected question each month, or even year) is a clear indication of where Pirsig feels the greater quality can be found and, although one can understand why Diana is annoyed by this, one would expect her to treat it as a challenge to inject some intellectual rigour into her own efforts rather than as an invitation to throw her toys out of the pram. Elephant. If you look at http://members.tripod.com/~Glove_r/Childcon.htm you will clearly see that Dan went to considerable trouble to ensure that he had permission to use the writing of everyone involved. *Diana gave hers!!* Dan quite properly and generously has stated that he will abide by her more recent wishes not to publish her work in a printed format, despite this being his expressed intention from the start. Now you owe Dan an apology. Amused? You bet I am! Struan _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. 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
