[MD] How to Gut a Book

[ian glendinning]

The difference Dan is between 100% recall and 100% understanding, so
you kinda make the point yourself.

If you want 100% recall instead of understanding, use a photocopier
(or speed reading and a photographic memory)
If you want to understand, recognise the key patterns in a book, and
forget most of the words, in fact don't even feel guilty about not
having time to read them.

Apart from Lavery (Barfield and the Descartes Evil Genius project) the
Pirsig connection is the difference between philosophology and
philosophy.

The former is about reading other peoples philosophies, the latter is
about recognising a good philosophy when you see one.

Ian

On 2/5/07, Dan Glover <daneglover at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> >From: "ian glendinning" <psybertron at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> >To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> >Subject: [MD] How to Gut a Book
> >Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 23:26:40 +0000
> >
> >Hi MoQ'ers.
> >
> >I read a very interesting 1989 article by David Lavery today
> >(and blogged about it).
> >http://www.psybertron.org/?p=1360
> >Pirsig scholars will recognise Lavery as a Barfield scholar.
> >
> >If you don't fancy reading my stream of thought (aka drivel) just
> >click directly on the first link to the "How to Gut a Book" article
> >itself.
> >
> >Interesting, I hope you'll agree ?
>
> Hi Ian
>
> I am afraid the article didn't make a lot of sense to me but then again I'm
> not an academic like Lavery. I see he puts down speed reading as a poor
> relation to "book gutting" yet at the same time admits he freely lied about
> reading Walden while at the university and even clipped quotes from the book
> to impress others. (Does that remind you of anyone here?) Kind of funny that
> I read the same book in less than an hour with near 100% recall.
>
> I guess I just don't get the point. Perhaps you could help me out. What drew
> your interest to this article? How does it relate to the MOQ?
>
> Dan
>
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