Hey Dan:
You said we owe Pirsig a big "Thank You" and I wholeheartedly agree. I
respect any individual who is willing to share his story, beliefs, doctrine,
philosophy, etc. with the general populace knowing full well he will be
instantly targeted for criticism. What giant of philosophical, psychological,
scientific, etc. thought has not had whole tomes dedicated to his destruction
(rather the destruction of his ideas)...Freud, Hegel, Kant, Copernicus, the
list is endless...and IMHO Pirsig is in the same class with all these
"greats" who pay a price for daring to make a few mistakes and/or fail to
convince all of humanity that each word of their doctrine is the word of God
or something. I sense the same kind of humility in Pirsig's writings as I do
in Jung, sort of "here it is, I've got the balls to write and defend it and
if you disagree then great...the dialogue is at least a start". I appreciate
the clarity of Pirsig's writing as he doesn't "hi-brow" the intellectually
challenged such as myself like the later, nearly incomprehsible rantings of a
Sartre or Heidegger. How wonderful it is to participate (or at least lurk)
in a dialogue with the grand master still at hand...I imagine not unlike the
disciples of Aristotle competing for his attention through the peristyle or
peripice or whatever that thingamajiggy was that became peripatetic...anyway,
the biggest of THANKS to you Mr. Pirsig for your entertaining,
thought-provoking, excellent books...they have certainly had a most positive
impact on my life.
Clarke
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