From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 02 2002 - 17:41:13 GMT
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>Hi,
>
>> >The 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.
>
>Very good idea! I appreciate your initiative.
>
>> >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."
>> >
>
>To me this passage points to one of the consequenses of Pirsig's MoQ. We
>are not in the ultimate sense an subject that has only secondary
>relations with some disconnected, 'objective' world. Our 'dialogue' with
>the world and other people make us what we are. We meet ourselves in
>others, even or precisely when these others are so 'exotic'.
>
>> 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'd say it's about I/everybody else. The cowboy/ Indian dichotomy is
>just one (important) example.
>
>Greetings, Patrick.
>
Hi Patrick,
I agree with this entirely. I think every image you see
is a reflection of *you*. But I think the hardest ones and
the ones that give you that eerie feeling is when you see your
opposite in the mirror.
erin
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