From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Sat Oct 05 2002 - 16:22:57 BST
Hi Erin,
I agree that in the specific instance that Pirsig describes, his reaction
was quality-directed, in other words that if he had allowed Redford to have
his wicked way, that would have been a degenerate activity - for the reasons
you describe in this and other posts. However, Pirsig doesn't tie his
reaction down to specifics, indeed he uses very sweeping terminology - and
he doesn't have to. He could have been more discriminating, but he wasn't.
Perhaps this is a narrative device (part of his anti-Phaedrus rhetoric);
even so, I think the point is worth making.
Sam
www.elizaphanian.v-2-1.net/home.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Erin Noonan" <enoonan@kent.edu>
To: "MOQ" <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2002 3:52 PM
Subject: MD film as an intellectual medium
> Sam,
>
> You are objecting to the sweeping argument that Pirsig makes but this
> statement was set in a context of the conditions of selling the rights to
his
> book to hollywood. I don't think it is fair to take it out of context as a
> blanket statement of films.
> A play and a film is based on a writer's work. The playwright is given
rights
> to any group creation of his works. In film he had been warned that
previous
> writers saw their work trashed in film because they had 'sold their work'.
> It seems that a play and a film is a group creation but only with a play
was
> the artist (individual) dominating. So it is fair to say if he wasn't
given
> rights that filmmaking was devouring his individudal intellectual work.
>
> erin
>
>
>
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