[MD] Code of Art

[Heather Perella]

mythos - preintellectual


SA

P.S.  Anybody ever see Akira.  Precognition was mentioned in this anime and was a big part of what happened in the story.


--- On Sun, 6/15/08, squonkmuse at talktalk.net <squonkmuse at talktalk.net> wrote:

> From: squonkmuse at talktalk.net <squonkmuse at talktalk.net>
> Subject: Re: [MD] Code of Art
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Date: Sunday, June 15, 2008, 1:28 PM
> Hi Marsha,
> You may be interested in the following from Mon May 24
> 1999:
> 
> Mr. Pirsig writes, 
> 
> 
> ?????"Making people laugh sympathetically about other
> people's disabilities 
> is an enormous accomplishment. 
> ?????The fact that you are doing so well at it indicates
> that the phenomena 
> that you experienced back in your 'insane' days may
> have been a kind of an 
> enlightenment as well as an insanity. The two tend to
> overlap. 
> ?????...Prior to enlightenment there is often a huge
> opening of the mind to 
> the 'mythos' which in this case means more than
> just legends. It means the 
> main stream, the whole body of every idea that ever existed
> or can exist 
> which each culture selects from, calling its own selection
> 'reality.' At 
> this time there is an abandonment of normal channels of
> cultural selectivity 
> over thought. The selection goes sort of crazy and you can
> think of any damn 
> thing and think it is real and in a sense it is. When you
> start wandering in 
> this mythos all rules are off and so you can pick up on
> strange things. I 
> think your mind wanderings about me and the ideas in ZMM
> and Lila probably 
> had less to do with me personally than with this
> phenomenon. 
> ?????...Just before entering the University of Chicago... I
> experienced a 
> similar pickup on the film 'Orpheus' by Jean
> Cocteau. I lived inside that 
> film and it had the same sort of effect on me that my book
> seems to have had 
> on you. 
> ?????...I'm certainly proud that ZMM has had a similar
> function for you and 
> that you are a part of the crowd of people working to
> diminish the misery of 
> the world rather than add to it or just ignore it. As
> I'm sure you know, 
> it's not as easy as it may look."
> 
> http://www.moqtalk.org/archivedata/moq_discuss/1998%20-%202002/9905/0117.html
> 
> Thu May 27 1999:
> http://www.moqtalk.org/archivedata/moq_discuss/1998%20-%202002/9905/0161.html
> 
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