[MD] Dynamic quality, openness, possibiliy and absence

[Dan Glover]

Hello everyone

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 2:44 PM, ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
> [Ian]
> Interesting that no-one else has responded to this 3 day old post from David, one of 3 or 4 he posted recommending reads from "outside" Pirsigland. ... Now tell me MD (with only a couple of exceptions I could name) is not trapped inside a cage of language.

Dan:
Why are you attacking us all here (with only a couple exceptions you
could name), Ian? Since when are we required to respond to every post?
I am sorry but 3 days is not much time to go over even the pdf that he
offered, much less purchase the book and read it.

Now, with that aside, I actually have been taking the time to read the
pdf that David M. provided. Don't know that you bothered with it but I
will for the sake of argument assume you have. Where is your response?
Did I miss it?

>
> [Arlo]
> So by "reading" this book, I escape from a "cage of language"?

Dan:
Bahaha. It is kind of like setting the lunatics free, isn't it?

>
> The larger point, though, is kinda ridiculous, Ian. I'm sure everyone here has dozens of 'recommends' they could make that aren't written by Pirsig. I've made many references over the years to Vygotsky, Bahktin, Michael Tomasello, Steven Johnson, not to mention Hofstadter and Carse. As I said to DMB just recently, one project I am working on involves bridging Piotr Gal'perin's ideas with Pirsig's. I see others make references and suggestions too, and I do note them to get to, maybe, there are only so many hours in the day. Maybe there are other reasons for people not responding than "being trapped inside a cage of language".

Dan:
Gotta agree with you, Arlo. I've gotten hundreds of book
recommendations off the MD over the years. Some I read, some I don't.
Plus there's that pesky little thing called making a living that seems
to drain much of my time away that I don't waste writing.

Thanks once again for making sense, Arlo.

Dan

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