Soc. Any one may see that there is no disgrace in the mere fact of writing.
Phaedr. Certainly not.
Soc. The disgrace begins when a man writes not well, but badly.
Phaedr. Clearly.
Soc: And what is well and what is badly-need we ask Lysias, or any other poet or orator, who ever wrote or will write either a political or any other work, in metre or out of metre, poet or prose writer, to teach us this?
This is from the Plato's "Phaedrus" dialogue (you can find it in the links page of the MOQ.org site). I think Pirsig paraphrased this sentence, that was actually about the art of writing... but maybe Elephant has more to say about it?
Bye
Marco
> What is the source of ZMM's epigraph - presumably from
> a Platonic dialogue:
>
> "And what is good, Phaedrus..." ?
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> Book and line number would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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