Re: MD Biographcal Detail

From: Valence (valence10@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 03:56:56 BST

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    Hey Ian,

    > Rick,
    > I'm certainly aware of the passage you refer to, it's just written as if
    > this was in the spring (of '61) - with all summer long to think about it.
    It
    > also doesn't sound like the kind of conversation in which they'd have got
    > round to discussing Socrates / Plato / Phaedrus, certainly not in a way
    that
    > Pirsig seems to recollect "essentially of
    > one question and no answer.."
    >
    > details, details ...

    I see your point. I don't have the 25th anniversary edition so I can't look
    to see exactly what he wrote. But if the meeting described in that quote
    was in 61, then it would seem impossible that Pirsig could have met McKeon
    in 1960 as the ZMM passage is almost certainly meant to represent their
    first meeting (unless it's one of those details that was 'changed for
    rhetorical purposes'). Sorry I couldn't be of more help.

    take care
    rick

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