From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 16:55:49 GMT
>===== Original Message From moq_discuss@moq.org =====
>Hi Kevin:
>
>Please show how the MoQ sorts out the "grays of ethics" in Chap. 24 of
>Lila. It appears to me that Pirsig makes many black & white moral
>judgments based on the MoQ. You may want to pay special attention to
>the part where Pirsig says that sympathy towards criminals and
>lawlessness is "really stupid."
>
Did Pirsig say that or did the character Phaedrus?
you are quite the character yourself Platt:-P
OOOOOOhhhhhh I am so glad Sam pointed this out. I knew it, knew it, knew it
but
it's so nice to hear Pirsig has said it.
If Pirsig was just like Phaedrus his other characters would have come out as
flat and unreal. Luckily he has much more perspective-taking skills then that.
PIRSIG: "Yes, Phædrus is overwhelmingly intellectual. He is not a mask,
really, justa literary character who is easy for me to write about because I
share many
of his static values a lot of the time. I don't think big self and small
self are involved here. My editor wanted me to make him a warmer person in
order to increase reader appeal. But making him warmer would have made him
more social and weakened the contrasts between himself and Rigel and Lila
that were intended to give strength to the story. The fact that everyone
seemed to think that Phædrus was me came as an unpleasant surprise after the
book was published. I had assumed that everyone would of course know that an
author and a character in his book cannot possibly be the same person."
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