[MD] fugue as a static pattern of value

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi M. -

There's always the danger of ossification.

A New Age system I like - 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Michael_Teachings - says "As soon as a 
religion is written down, it dies."

I know Pirsig isn't (explicitly) trying for a new religion.

Yet out of the archeology of dead traces, new life comes.

I think his moment with the plant and the lady watering it is immortal. 
We reach it *through* the static letters on pages. D.H. Lawrence has a 
moment like that in "The Rainbow." Ursula, his 1910s New Woman heroine, 
is bored stuff studying Latin. Then, all of the sudden, she feels the 
blood going through the veins of a Roman centurion. She's penetrated the 
barrier.

Impossible without the "dead language"!


MRB


On 10/24/2012 8:23 AM, MarshaV wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> My memory is not as accurate as yours, the quote actually reads:
>
>      "He disliked dogs, ..." (ZAMM, Chapter 7)
>
> How strange it must be to have your likes and dislikes made static by being a comment made in a book published in 1974.  It might be that in 2012, RMP loves dogs, and like Schopenhauer is particularly fond of poodles.
>   
> Marsha