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Hi Marsha,
Thanks so much.  It is good to have an electronic copy that I can
search through.

My comments concerning your use of unsupported quotes was simply
rhetoric.  Since I do not seem to be getting anywhere in understanding
your metaphysics through that method, I will humbly drop it.  I often
have difficulty in figuring out why you present one quote or another,
but I can live with that.

In my opinion, as readers we bring words to life, since they are
static representations on a page, and as such have no meaning in and
of themselves.  I do not often use quotes, but if I do, they are used
at the beginning or end of an opinion of mine, and typically are
presented as a better way of displaying, in words, than I am able to
do.  However, the quoted words are lifeless unless I explain why they
are meaningful to me.  But that is just me.

So, I will respectfully stop asking you to explain your ideas on the
quote, and I apologize if my posts to you seemed somewhat arrogant.
That is not how I wish to present myself.

For me, Alan Watts is more significant than Pirsig in the development
of my thinking along such lines.  He was a talented person who was
able to create enlightening analogies of what Eastern philosophies
meant in Western terms.  We need more like him.

I find that I learn more from him if I listen to his lectures.  I love
the way he laughs at some of his incongruities, and the way he
emphasizes and pauses between certain words.  Words are words, and how
they are verbally said makes a big difference for my understanding how
a speaker is using them.  Something was lost when we switched from
verbal traditions such as story telling around a fire, to putting
everything into books.  I always come away with more when I speak
directly with someone, rather than read what they have written.  This
is true in scientific publications, where there is more to the
scientists thinking than what is presented in a publication.  The
internet has only strengthened the power of the written word, and we
now interact through a keyboard rather than face to face.  I try to at
least do both on a 50:50 basis.

Thanks again,
Mark

On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:44 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Mark,
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> I don't know if your email address represents more than an avatar, but I emailed you a pdf copy of The Joyous Cosmology by Alan Watts.
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> Marsha
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