From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 22:06:23 BST
Hello everyone
>From: Sriram Subramaniam <sriram_moq@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>Subject: MD Possible incorrect sentence in Lila
>Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 10:02:39 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hello,
>
>I've been reading and re-reading Lila for many years now, and I've noticed
>there is a sentence which I think is phrased incorrectly, and I was
>wondering if anyone else had any thoughts about it. In chapter 24, near
>the bottom of page 348 of my Bantam paperback edition, the statement
>appears: "Just as the intellectual revolution undermined social patterns,
>the Hippies undermined both static and intellectual patterns." I think
>this statement is phrased incorrectly. The correct statement should read:
>"...the Hippies undermined both social and intellectual patterns." Since
>intellectual patterns are static patterns, it doesn't make sense to say,
>"both static and intellectual patterns." It would be like saying, "rabies
>affects both mammals and dogs." Since dogs are mammals, the statement is
>overly redundant. In general, it is logically incorrect to say "both x and
>y" when y is a subset of x.
>
>Considering what is said earlier regarding the confusion of biological
>quality and Dynamic Quality that the Hippies had such as the statement,
>"The Hippie rejection of social and intellectual patterns left just two
>directions to go: toward biological quality and toward Dynamic Quality,"
>and also later in this paragraph such as the statement, "The result has
>been a drop in both social and intellectual quality," I think it should
>have been written that the Hippies undermined both social and intellectual
>patterns.
Hi Sriram
Good to hear from you! I thought I had my house sold and was suppose to
close on June 30 but the deal fell through. Now all my stuff is in storage
and I'm living in my empty house with my laptop, a kitchen table, a lawn
chair and a mattress. Since I don't have my copy of LILA to refer to could
you please send the paragraph this sentence is from, as well as the
preceding and following paragraphs? I think you're right but I'd just like
to check on the context.
>
>I don't know if any future editions of Lila are planned, but if so,
>hopefully this minor error can be fixed. Possibly if any one is in
>correspondence with Mr. Pirsig or his publisher, this can be brought to his
>attention if not already done so.
Sounds like a plan to me.
Thank you for sharing your find.
Dan
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