[MD] Clouds

[Dan Glover]

>From: pholden at davtv.com
>Reply-To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>Subject: Re: [MD] Clouds
>Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 18:17:42 -0500
>
>Quoting david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com>:
>
> > Dan and all MOQers:
> >
> > I think your essay is a beautiful portrait of alienation. The outpouring 
>of
> > sympathetic response shows, ironically, that feelings of loneliness and
> > isolation are something we all have in common.
>
>Speak for yourself. I for one don't feel the least bit isolated, lonely, or
>alienated. Sure the world isn't perfect, but beauty abounds. Better to seek
>and soak up the good than whimper and whine about the ills. Didn't Pirsig
>write about the restorative power of a little gumption? Ach, just blow on
>your hands. There's a world of personal fulfillment out there. Go get it.

Dear Platt

"Phaedrus looked at the glass window across the hotel room and at the 
darkness beyond it. The question that seemed to grow in his mind every time 
he came back to New York was: Is this city going to survive or isn't it? 
It's always had social problems, and it's always survived them, and somehow 
it's always been strengthened by them, and maybe that will happen again. But 
this time the odds didn't look bright. He remembered the title Rudyard 
Kipling had used for Calcutta back in Victorian times, "The City of Dreadful 
Night." That's what this city was becoming." (LILA)

I guess Robert Pirsig is just whimpering here. Tell me... YOUR generation is 
responsible for the world heating up... I hope you feel comfortable soaking 
up the good and the beautiful while your decendents are paying for your 
excesses for the next thousand years. If your grandhildren ask you why, do 
you have an answer for them? Or are you just going to tell them to turn up 
the air conditioning, get a little gumption, and quit whining?