From: Kolthof, dhr. A.R. (AKolthof@cvz.nl)
Date: Tue Dec 03 2002 - 13:39:11 GMT
Lila p.324 Dutch version: ' (...): reference to On the Road by Jack Kerouac-
R.P. mentions how this writer is the voice of a movement, the so-called
hippies, which- by the way- is the movement my parents hated, and how those
hippies missed a big chance, not noticing the difference between the
biological "level" and DQ (in their refutation by action of the intellectual
level). The thing I would like to discuss: was Pirsig inspired by the
following transscript from Desolation Angels by Kerouac- because the
similarities (as I mentioned, p. 324 of the Dutch version of Lila) are there
I think...
I dare you to look for the section in which Pirsig discusses much the same
thing (if you can't find it I'll be more than happy to look for it myself)
and then you tell me: inspiration or a mild form of plagiarism...
Here is Kerouac (mention his use of "Lila"):
(.) Because by far the sweetest gift on earth, inseminating a woman, the
feeling of that for a tortured man, leads to children who are torn out of
the womb screaming for mercy as tho they were being thrown to the Crocodiles
of Life- in the River of Lives- which is what birth is, O ladies & Gentlemen
of gentle Scotland- 'Babies born screaming in this town are miserable
examples of what happens everywhere,' I once wrote- 'Little girls make
shadows in the sidewalk shorter than the Shadow of death in this town,'I
also wrote - Both the Ruths had been born screaming girls but at age 14 they
suddenly got the urge sexily & snakily to make others scream & scream - It's
awful - The essential teaching of the Lord Buddha was: 'No More Rebirth' but
this teaching was taken over, hidden, controverted, turned upside down and
defamed into Zen, the invention of Mara the Tempter, Mara the Insane, Mara
the Devil- Today whole big intellectual books are being published about 'Zen
' which is nothing but the Devil's personal war against the essential
teaching of Buddha who said to his 1250 boys when the Courtesan Amra and her
girls were approaching with gifts across the Bengali Meadow: 'Tho she is
beautiful, and gifted, 't were better for all of you to fall into a Tiger's
mouth than to fall into her net of plans.' Oyes ? Meaning by that, for every
Clark gable or Gary Cooper born, with all the so called glory (or Hemingway)
that goes with it, comes disease, decay, sorrow, lamentation, old age,
death, decomposition- meaning for every little sweet lump of baby born that
women croon over, is one vast rottewn meat burning slow worms in graves of
this earth.
But nature has made women so maddingly desirable for men, the unbelievable,
the impossible-to-actually-believe wheel of birth and dying turns on and
turns on, as tho some Devil was turning the Wheel himself hard and sweaty
for suffering human horror to try to make an imprint somehow in the void of
the sky - As tho anything, even a Pepsi Cola ad with jetplanes, could be
printed up there, unless the Apocalypse - But Develish nature has so worked
it that men desire women and women scheme for men's babies - Something we
were proud of when we were Lairds but which today makes us sick to think of
it, whole supermarket electronic doors opening by themselves to admit
pregnant women so they can buy food to feed death further - Bluepencil me
that, UPI - But a man is invested with all this trembling tissue, the Hindus
call it 'Lila' (Flower), and there's nothing he can do with his tissue save
get him to a monastery where however horrible male perverts sometimes wait
for him anyway - So why not loll in the love of belly wheat ? But I knew the
end was coming'...
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