From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sat Sep 20 2003 - 21:57:12 BST
Matt and all MOQists:
DMB said:
Pointing out his antiessentialist passages for a year? I don't recall you
ever posting a Pirsig passage.
Matt replied:
I cheated. I went back to a year ago and found posts where I quoted Pirsig.
And I didn't dig around that long because I think DMB is full of bunk...
But I tell you, looking back, its really hard to say that I never talk about
Pirsig. Or even rarely.
dmb says:
We agree on at least on thing; you cheated. There is a whole world of
difference between posting quotes FOR A YEAR and posting quotes A YEAR AGO.
In any case, I merely said that I did not recall such an effort, not that
you never tried. Further, it seems that you're too concerned with with
things other than addressing the issue. I mean, why not simply post those
anti-essentialist quotes? Then I would have some idea of what you're talking
about. (Assuming you'd like to be understood.) Why not just skip all the
defensive moves and just tell me what it is that makes Pirsig an
"anti-essentialist". Why not simply tell me what an anti-essentialist is?
Maybe you could even compare it to essentialists. (May I assume that you
think this is an important idea?) I wish you'd focus on ideas. Isn't that
why we're here?
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