[MD] New Pirsig Interview with the Times

[Ant McWatt]

MarshaV stated August 6th:

>Explaining his philosophy to the public?  180, 360?   Might as well
>have used hieroglyphics.

Ant McWatt comments:

That possibly wouldn't have been such a bad idea considering the 
intellectual interest that hieroglyphics stirred up for so long. :-)

>If that "interview" was coming out of seclusion, than I'm
>nineteen.  Maybe Mr. Pirsig might write the perfect 'interview'.
>
>Come on...   I've given away dozens of copies of ZMM.  I sent copies
>of both books to my senators.  I've written C-SPAN's Brian Lamb three
>times requesting an in-depth interview.  I've talked about the MOQ to
>anyone who mentioned any of the words: value, quality, morals,
>religion, enlightenment, philosophy, dynamic, static, Zen,
>motorcycle, art, etc., etc., etc.

Marsha,that's not bad going.  Did the senators or Brain Lamb respond out of 
interest?

>I want more, more, more, more, more.
>
>If not now, when?????

Ant McWatt comments:

When the next Beatles album of new material comes out?

I think there is an issue of celebrity dominating the Dynamic and 
intellectual here, Marsha.  I always remember John Lennon saying to a DJ 
(Andy Feebles of the BBC) who asked him in a 1980 interview when the Beatles 
were getting back together again.

Lennon replied on the lines of "why don't you work your butt off for ten 
years and produce your own "Beatles", Andy"?  Not exactly a satisfactory 
reply for a fan such as myself but in a sense that is what Oasis did (to 
some degree of success) in the 1990s.

Again, in the same sense there's nothing stopping anyone else with the 
normal mental faculties and the determination from writing their own "Zen & 
the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance".  In fact, personally I'd rather to see a 
new book on the MOQ by the fine artist/philosopher Marsha V than Robert 
Pirsig.  The latter would be a relatively static read for me while a new 
book by yourself would be Dynamic.  And remember, if your book has high 
enough intellectual quality (and if you put the work in, there's no reason 
it shouldn't have), it will be published before you even approach anywhere 
like 122 publishers because Pirsig has already pioneered the "MOQ trail" for 
you!

Jai Guru Deva Om,

Anthony.


P.S. I already note you're on the right creative start...

"I want more, more, more, more!"

Marsha V, August 2006.

"She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah!"

Lennon-McCartney, August 1963.


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