From: Elizaphanian (Elizaphanian@members.v21.co.uk)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 08:55:28 GMT
Hi Platt,
Perhaps the interesting question is: if "I also really am Richard Rigel" -
does that mean that Rigel is in fact *not* the source of all evil?
Sam
www.elizaphanian.v-2-1.net/home.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: MD Sophocles not Socrates
> Hi Sam,
>
> > And I now discover in Lila's Child Pirsig saying:
> >
> > "Yes, Phædrus is overwhelmingly intellectual. He is not a mask, really,
> > just a 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."
>
> Pirsig says he shares many of his Phaedrus character's static values. I
> take him at his word. Also in Lila's Child in the same place Pirsig
> writes:
>
> One interviewer asked me, "Are you really Phaedrus?" The answer was,
> "Yes I really am Phaedrus. I also really am Richard Rigel. I also really
> am Lila. I also really am the boat."
>
> So I guess a question will always be, "Will the real Robert Pirsig please
> stand up?" But when he writes things like, "What the Metaphysics of
> Quality says . . ." I believe I'm safe in presuming that the statements
> and conclusions which follow are Pirsig's own.
>
> Platt
>
>
>
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