[MD] The Greeks?

[Mary]

Hi John,

> Didya check out that link to Pirsig's book review and commentary on
> Texas
> Girls and their insistence upon the courage of one's conviction?
> 
> Pretty timely coincidence I'd say.
> 
[Mary Replies] 
I did.  The one reviewed wasn't an archetypal "Texas hard-ass woman" though.
She was a Methodist, which is akin to a flaming bleeding-heart liberal in
this state - and a "New York City ballet dancer" to boot?  What's up with
that?  She's a real softie.  Went off to "find herself" right?  No
self-respecting nails for breakfast, tacks for lunch, black-Irish immigrant
Southern Baptist Texas woman would need to "find herself".  She'd kick butt
until somebody brought it to her with a bow on top, then she'd put that bow
in her great big hair and sit in the pew in front of you at church so you
couldn't see anything. ;)

The anti-litter campaign here is "Don't mess with Texas".  I want a bumper
sticker.  It would say. "Don't mess with Texas, you might confuse them".

Best,
Mary

> "In fact, if there's one thing the traditional Texas Protestant knows
> how to
> do better than anything else, it's how to make up his *own* ornery mind
> about what is right and what is wrong, and *keeps* it made up, come
> hell or
> high water, or anything else you might want to run in front of him.
> Texas
> girls see this in their fathers and grow up unconsciously expecting to
> find
> it in every man."
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Pretty damning condemnation of Pirsig, huh?  Well, though I just said
> it, I
> > don't even believe it myself.  He's a very smart man and I don't for
> a
> > minute believe he's overlooked this.  And I don't think I give him
> this out
> > based on the dazzle of celebrity in my eyes either.
> >
> >
> 
> Good for you Mary.  I'm sure Bob would approve.  And obviously,
> understand
> completely.
> 
> John
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