ah Struan but it's MY website that you just can't stay away from!
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> From: owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-moq_discuss@venus.co.uk]On Behalf Of Douce Ambiance
> Sent: Sunday, May 20, 2001 10:23 PM
> To: moq_discuss@moq.org
> Subject: MD From Struan: Lila's Child and bruised egos
>
>
> 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
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