From: jc (jcpryor@nccn.net)
Date: Sat Aug 20 2005 - 19:49:33 BST
> Do you get my point? It's not how you see
>Lila--it's how I see Pirsig seeing Lila that turns me off.
>
>
>C.L.
CL,
Thanks for pointing this out. You've really made me look at my
reasons why I prefer Lila (the book). And I would say it's mainly
for the very reason you point out. Phaedrus does not come off like
any comic book romance hero in this portrayal. Something else comes
across instead. Why would an author who has such serious aspirations
as taking on an entire metaphysical foundation, start out by shaking
his booty in a bar with a brazen hussy and then get stuck with her
for the entire voyage? And get lambasted by Rigel for it, right off
the bat? And whatever happened to the LAST character he was
burdened with? What happened to Chris?
You wait for answers that never come and you start thinking more than
you want. Sorta like Zen, I guess. For me the experience of reading
Lila, came after a great deal of anticipation and waiting. The only
words I'd gotten from RMP since ZMM was a little blurb review about
another book by James P. Carse (has anybody else read it?) and other
than that... nada.
So when I read Lila, I was in the proper mood.
jc
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