[MD] Pirsig/James connection

[John Carl]

Whistling in the graveyard, Arlo. That's what I was doing with my thorns
comment.  Whistling in the graveyard.  I liked Dave's postings and hoped he
would stay.  But whaddya gonna do?  Pander?  Plead?  Put a muzzle on Marsha
and tell her that a woman's place is in the kitchen?
Yeah.  You go ahead and try that plan.  Let me know how it works.

Personally, I'd go out on the road and stand there with a sign begging for
passing William James Fans to sign up for the MoQ, if it would do any good.


An interesting image.



On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Arlo Bensinger <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:

> [John]
> If they can't take the thorns, they don't deserve the rose.
>
> [Arlo]
> So let me see if I understand... when two people who are interested in a
> philosophical connection Pirsig himself made are driven off, you shrug you
> shoulders and don't care.
>
> When *I* come down on Platt for squawking about "death panels" and saying
> such inane comments like "academics are willing executioners of those who
> disagree with them", you yell at ME to play nice???
>
> Am I to think that "thorns" are only okay when they prick people who talk
> about James, but not okay when the prick wingnuts who squawk about "death
> panels" and academics being "willing executioners"?
>
>
>
>
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