[MD] Clouds

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Dan Glover <daneglover at hotmail.com>:

> 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.

Has Robert been to New York city lately? It's a clean, thriving, beautiful city
since Giuliani cleaned it up and routed the dreadful forces of night. 

> Tell me... YOUR generation is 
> responsible for the world heating up...

How come the world was hotter during the Middle Ages?

> 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.

What "excesses" do you have in mind? 

> 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?
 
I certainly would tell them to quit whining and get busy. I would tell them if
they don't like the way things are in their lives, change them. Robert Pirsig
certainly did, and you did too by compiling, editing and publishing "Lila's
Child." This business of sitting around on a pity pot and complaining
about how "ain't it awful" doesn't sound like the Dan Glover I thought I
knew. I hope and pray that your are simply undergoing a temporary down period.    
 
Platt


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