[MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Michael R. Brown <mrb at fuguewriter.com> wrote:
> Hi, Dan Glover -
>
>> Welcome back!
>
> Thanks so. I've been thinking about you guys - is this related to the list
> LC is drawn from? (My books are in many boxes.)

Yes

>
>> no one here knows the totality of Robert Pirsig's thoughts. All we know is
>> what he's written in his two books and his subsequent writings.
>
> Is there a total bibliography somewhere? Bob may be a Arturo Benedetti
> Michelangeli of the pen - a master with a deeply restricted repertory. Is he
> still writing?

I don't know.

>Last I saw was his '95 writing on QM, and of course I
> listened to the British interview when it came out. Is the DVD good?

Yes

>
> I have the feeling there's a lot more where the two books came from ... any
> rumors of, like Camille Paglia, a masterwork on index cards or in a box
> somewhere?

I don't know.

>
>> And this is an intellectual discussion (is it not?) so I am unsure what
>> (or if) you are criticizing.
>
> I was more ... wondering. We know from brain experiments that people cut off
> from emotion - affective energy - can still think, but they suffer from an
> inability to decide. Path-preference starts to dissipate. Things become
> undecidable. (Is this not one of the malaise of our times? From Godel to the
> present-day neurosis.) Surely ZAMM is a book of enormous passion.

I am still unsure what you're getting at.

>
>> You should post a link (I already checked out your website
>> [http://www.fuguewriter.com/books/she/] but others might be curious).
>
> Thank you - but the last thing I would want to do is spam a mailing list I
> just joined! The book is still up there on Kindle for $9.99.

I did not know that. I didn't see a link to Kindle on your website.
Perhaps I missed it...

>If anyone's
> interested, I'd be happy to send a gratis hardcopy. Just toss me a note
> off-list with a snailmail address and I'll get to it. (Proviso: I  can't
> send out hundreds and hundreds!)

That is very good of you.

Dan