From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 05:29:17 GMT
>he format is simple. We focus on a
>passage from the book. The only requirement is that we focus on the passage.
>As long as it addresses the meaning of the words in some way, anything is
>game. That's all there is to it. There is no specific question posed. Or
>rather, its like the question will always be, "what does this mean?" No
>matter what the passage, the task is always the same; explore its meaning.
>
>What's it all about? (chapter 9)
>
>"When Phaedrus first read this passage he felt a kind of eerie feeling - a
>feeling he might have had if he had passed in front of a strange mirror and
>suddenly seen a reflection of someone he'd never expected to see. It was the
>same feeling he got at the peyote meeting. This Zuni Indian was not exactly
>someone else.>This was not just an isolated tribal incident going on here.
This was>something of universal importance happening. This was EVERYMAN. There
is not >a person alive who is not in some way or other in the kind of
situation this >"witch" was in. It was just that his circumstances were so
exotic and so
>extreme one could now see it, by itself, out in the open."
>
I remember somebody talking about how Lila was a deconstruction
of the metanarrative of America. It seems to me like Pirsig is playing with
that whole Cowboy /Indian dichotomy.
I actually like when campbell talks about the two modern
archetypes being the scientist and artist.
I think that Phaedrus character fits the scientist really well
and the Zuni Indian character fits the artist really well.
Pirsig of course is a scientific artist.
Not really sure what you wanted here..that is how in depth.
Interesting passage you chose. You going to make us wait
until the end to hear your $.02 on it?
erin
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