Pirsig fans.<br>Internet discussions seem to have
only two modes: full ahead and dead stop. I
participate in another site (Colin Wilson) which is
overflowing while this one is dried up, but no problem it
gives me the opportunity to deliver another
monologue.<br><br>The said Colin Wilson (British born 1931 "The
Outsider" his first book) reminds me of Robert Pirsig
because he primarily writes to express ideas and is
perhaps a better writer in the sense that he have
received bad reviews and still go on writing. As an
original thinker, however, Pirsig is light-years ahead but
was too self-critical to publish anything after the
tepid reception of LILA. Yet, it was perhaps the wiser
thing to do - not to build a recluse reputation, but
from a deep quality sense. He has said it, no new
argument will persuade anyone who did not get the message
through ZAMM and LILA, and writing for the sake of
writing is not his thing. <br> Wilson has written about
many phenomena: mostly what one would call occult, his
last venture was about UFOs, while Pirsig has not
touched such stuff (except for the ghost story of ZMM and
the Dharmakaya Light of LILA). There are those who
don't like his "afterword" in (some editions)of ZAMM,
guess it is his wonderings about where Chris went
(after death) that was regarded unseemly. <br> But can a
metaphysics - which is supposed to cover everything there is
- avoid occultism? Or is it so that even the occult
is a subject/ object fallout? That they are observed
don't help - it's merely data. Over at the CW site I
have prayed for Wilson to "discover" Pirsig and start
popularizing his Quality Metaphysics; nobody beats Wilson in
that aspect, but can the MoQ be popularized?
<br>Enough question marks.<br>Bo