[MD] Julian Baggini interview

[Squonkonguitar at aol.com]

Hi Mark,
The line where Ant says:
"A complete transcript of the  interview doesn't really
exist..." is in the following  post:

http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/2006-October/006636
.html

Ant  is not saying that a transcript does not exist,
he's just saying that one  with the social niceties
included isn't available. I don't know why he  bothered
to mention this, but apparently it's caused you
confusion. You'll  see that higher up in the same post
he puts a link to the transcript where  it's hosted on
TPM. If you follow that link it should lead you to the
same  transcript that Baggini attached to the email he
sent you.

I'm not  sure Ant was that clear when he described how
the interview was conducted.  Since Pirsig only
entrusts a few people with his email address,  Baggini
not being one of them, Baggini had to send the
questions to  Anthony, and then Anthony forwarded them
to Pirsig. The answers were funneled  back to Baggini
in the reverse direction.

The TPM Jan 2006 edition had  an article by Baggini
about the interview and it was available on the web  by
Jan 11. It stayed up for about 3 months and was
removed when the next  edition came out. moq.org links
to this and that's why it no longer works.  The
transcript of the interview (which was separate from
the article) was  also made available on the web at the
same time and it's still available.  Links to it are
available from my moq site (home.comcast.net/~moq/)
and  Matt Kundert's blog
(pirsigaffliction.blogspot.com/)

In early January,  the news page at robertpirsig.org
promised to put up the transcript of the  Baggini
interview "within the week", and Baggini's main
article noted that  the transcript would take up
residence there as well. January ended with  no
transcript being posted and the news page for
February, which came out  before January ended, no
longer included the teaser. By Feb 3,  the
MOQSummary.html page appeared on robertpirsig.org. It
consisted of  excerpts taken from the interview solely
from Pirsig's side of the  discussion. At the time, I
believe this page made mention of TPM and Baggini  in
the introductory remarks, but these were removed at
some later  time.

Ian, who was helping to mediate a discussion with Ant
at the  time, reported that posting the transcript was
not a high priority item with  Ant and that he had
plenty of other more pressing things to do.

I hope  this clears some things up. You are welcome to
post this if you'd  like.
Glenn