So are you offering to start this book?
>From: "Daniel Colonnese" <dcolonnese@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: Re: MD Provaction to Dismissal
>Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 17:30:52 GMT
>
>How does an academic movement begin? Well, often such a movement begins
>with a single author and a small group of people who are devoted to
>understanding what he is trying to say. And as a particular interpretation
>becomes more and more popular, a new field of study is born.
>
>The first logic step in creating a new discipline is to create texts. I
>imagine one day seeing a paperback book published by Routledge: The
>Metaphisics of Quality: A Reader. Or perhaps a hardcover textbook
>published by Harcourt-Brace: An Introduction to The Metaphisics of
>Quality, something for the undergraduates. If such reference were
>available, and well marketed, more than a few disgruntled English
>Professors would pick them up. Primary texts are great, but if you want
>the MOQ to really take off, you have to teach it. And, people are
>listening better these days especially the kids, they’re really listening.
>
>Does the MOQ belong in some obscure class in the philosophy department?
>Probably not, but that’s at least one step closer to legitimacy than living
>suspended in cyberspace. And after a few semesters, a few people might
>even begin to make waves in other departments. Even though it's a
>complicated book, we don't have the cliff notes to ZMM because it’s not
>assigned reading anywhere.
>
>I may be young, but I’m not naïve. I know that books get published because
>they are expected to make money. There is already a large fan-base of
>educated dynamic people who might buy a secondary text. And a lot of
>people (like myself) would consider ZMM or Lilia to be their favorite book.
>
>Among, the subscribers to this list we might most of a collection of essays
>about MOQ already in existence. And we can steal Zen poems, scientific
>essays, and anything else that belongs in an anthology. Pirsig gave the
>MOQ its first dynamic push into existence, now we have to latch it down.
>
>I'd love to spend hundreds of thankless hours editing and formating essays,
>using desktop publishing software, and writing provocative letters to
>famous publishers.
>
>-Daniel Colonnese
>
>
>
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