Re: MD Reccomended Reading

From: Ross Mohan (skipdext@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Tue May 29 2001 - 05:48:19 BST


Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse.

Great book. Just incredible. Carse is a professor
of religious studies, and in my opinion, an enlightened
man, in the full-bore eastern sense of that word.

I can easily see Pirsig liking this book. It has the
powerful and deft application of logic presented with
the easy simplicity of an afternoon tea. The man is
a master and Pirsig may well have sensed a near equal.

Still, I'd rather have warm beer from a beer can cannibalized
for shim stock than most anything in the world.

- Ross
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: BoorChess@aol.com
  To: moq_discuss@moq.org
  Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 6:07 PM
  Subject: Re: MD Reccomended Reading

  Hello this is my first post. I thought it would be a good moment to mention a
  book that I have just finished called "Finite and infinite games" By Carsi.
  It has quote from pirsig on the back, this is what caught my attention as I
  had just finished ZMM and LILA this year. The structure or rules that Carsi
  lays out in his book has some similarites to Pirsigs works. I have also
  noticed the usage of chess as a metaphor in Pirsigs work. Myself being a
  nationally ranked chess master and life long devotee to the game cant help
  but try to bring up this dimenson of the MQ.

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