[MD] The Hero's journey

[MarshaV]

Mark,

Oh, I thought it might also be a writer's exercise for character development.  Difficult to consider it's a style to move the conversation towards getting "unstuck". 

Have fun.  


Marsha






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On Dec 12, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Matt Kundert <pirsigaffliction at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Yeah, you might have me there.  I hope not most of my posts, but I 
> do think that a different style would behoove certain modes of 
> conversation.  I'd like to hope I'm a good reader of differing genres 
> and styles, but I also hope to balance a stylistic egalitarianism with 
> an understanding of how form impacts content.  If that deserves a 
> wow, then I guess.
> 
>> From: valkyr at att.net
>> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:07:36 -0500
>> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>> Subject: Re: [MD] The Hero's journey
>> 
>> No Matt, not authoritarian.  I consider most of your posts to be your project to gloss your style to the point of magniloquence.  
>> 
>> Marsha 
>> 
>> On Dec 12, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Matt Kundert wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Well, I don't know, Marsha.  If one dancer is trying to slow dance 
>>> and the other is trying to salsa, isn't okay sometimes for one person 
>>> to speak up and say, "Why don't you pick a dance that we can both 
>>> dance to..."?
>>> 
>>> Why did you read me as being authoritarian?
>>> 
>>> And what is the virtue of the stuck-state of Dan and I's conversation?  
>>> Being stuck can be good, as you quote Pirsig, but I think it will only 
>>> seem that way retrospectively, after one has figured out just how, in 
>>> fact, that it was a true and profound stuckness, and not just regular 
>>> stuckness.  If you can see how to transcend my inability to 
>>> understand how Dan conceives of the philosophical area we've been 
>>> discussing, in a way that Dan recognizes as the area he's been trying 
>>> to occupy, then I'm all ears.  I haven't found it, and so am not sure 
>>> whether this is profound or regular.
>>> 
>>> If I misunderstood the import of your remarks, I apologize.
>>> Uu
>>> Matt
>>> 
>>>> From: valkyr at att.net
>>>> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:32:21 -0500
>>>> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [MD] The Hero's journey
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 11, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Matt Kundert wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hey Dan,
>>>>> [I began this post before you finished your own reply--you'll see the 
>>>>> change-over, and perhaps the reason why I didn't reconfigure my 
>>>>> response.]
>>>> 
>>>> Matt,
>>>> 
>>>> Wow, the conversation goes forward, but by your determination of format?   
>>>> 
>>>> "If your mind is truly, profoundly stuck, then it might be much better off than when it was loaded with ideas"  
>>>>    (RMP, ZAMM, Chapter 24) 
>>>> 
>>>> Marsha 
>> 
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