From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 19 2004 - 15:47:37 GMT
Hi Jordi
It's nice to hear from you. So far as I know there's no such word as
"introconvertable." I believe Robert Pirsig meant "interconvertable" which
as you have surmised from the context means interchangable.
Good luck with your work,
Dan
>From: "Jordi Soldevila" <jordi.solda@wanadoo.es>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
>Subject: MD a small comprehension doubt
>Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 14:00:17 +0100
>
>Hi you all and congratulations for creating this list to dicuss a very
>interesting book,
>
>I’m a translator into Catalan and I’m now translating the second half of
>“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. I’m using the 25th
>anniversary edition from Vintage Books. The fact is that I’ve got a
>doubt on the comprehension of a term in a phrase of the book, namely in
>the page 252 (chapter 20). The fragment in wihich this word is included
>is the following:
>
>“Phaedrus remembered Hegel had been regarded as a bridge between Western
>and Oriental philosophy. The Vedanta of the Hindus, the Way of the
>Taoists, even the Buddha had been described as an absolute monism
>similar to Hegel’s philosophy. Phaedrus doubted at the time, however,
>whether mystical Ones and metaphysical monisms were introconvertable
>since mystical Ones follow no rules and metaphysical monisms do. His
>Quality was a metaphysical entity, not a mystic one. Or was it? What was
>the difference?”
>
>I think, thanks to the context (cause i can’t find the meaning of this
>adjective anywhere) that this phrase means, more or less, that he
>doubted whether mystical Ones and metaphysical monisms were the same.
>That is my suggestion for a translation into Catalan, but I’m ot sure at
>all, so I would be very pleased if somebody could help me in
>interpreting this term, and to some extend this sentence.
>
>Thanks a lot,
>
>Jordi Soldevila.
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