RE: MD Pirsig note on" introconvertable"

From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 16:50:54 GMT

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    Hi Anthony

    This is way up there on the cool scale. Thank you!

    Dan

    >From: <ant.mcwatt@ntlworld.com>
    >Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
    >To: moq_discuss@moq.org
    >CC: jordi.solda@wanadoo.es
    >Subject: MD Pirsig note on" introconvertable"
    >Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 0:11:17 +0000
    >
    >Jordi,
    >
    >I hope you find the note below on "introconvertable" from Robert Pirsig
    >some further assistance in its translation into "Catalan".
    >
    >Best wishes,
    >
    >Anthony McWatt
    >
    >----------------------------------------------------------
    >
    >"The question Jordi Soldevila asks about my use of the word
    >³introconvertable² is one that only I can answer so I guess I should do so
    >for the record. I first heard it from Prof. George P. Conger whom I have
    >referred to before as the person who sent me to Benares Hindu university.
    >Conger said he had gone to visit Gandhi, where he was told that the Mahatma
    >was pretty busy. Being a Congregational minister Conger sent in one
    >question (with some tongue in cheek,) ³Is there any hope for Christianity?²
    >After a while the answer came back, presumably from Gandhi, that,³Monism
    >and monotheism are introconvertable.² Now it may be that Gandhi invented
    >the word ³introconvertable² or it may be that Conger invented it, but is
    >most
    >likely that I invented it myself because Conger mispronounced it or I
    >misheard it. Until today, when I looked it up, I thought it really was a
    >word. ³Interconvertable² means the same thing."
    >
    >(Robert Pirsig to Anthony Mcwatt January 20th 2004)
    >
    >
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    Thanks a lot you all for your comments, you’ve helped me a lot...

    Regards,

    Jordi Soldevila.

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