rickmahaffey@COMCAST.NET on mon 31 jan 11
A student in Grad school loved that book, I read that book in Grad school a=
nd got bored with it. I seemed to have discovered what he was writing about=
by the second year of high school. Never finished it because as Lee said i=
t was way too scattered toward the end or was that the middle.
YMMV,
Rick
Lee on mon 31 jan 11
Discussions about quality are relevant to the craftsman. But Pirsig
dosen't say anything new about the subject. The best part about
the book I suppose is the title. People read the book and think they
know something about zen.
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:32 AM, wrote:
> A student in Grad school loved that book, I read that book in Grad school=
=3D
and got bored with it. I seemed to have discovered what he was writing abo=
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ut by the second year of high school. Never finished it because as Lee said=
=3D
it was way too scattered toward the end or was that the middle.
>
> YMMV,
> Rick
>
--=3D20
--
=3DA0Lee Love in Minneapolis
http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
=3DA0"Ta tIr na n-=3DF3g ar chul an tI=3D97tIr dlainn trina ch=3DE9ile"=3D9=
7that is, =3D
"The
land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent
within itself." -- John O'Donohue
gwynneth rixon on mon 31 jan 11
My grandmother, then aged about 94, was sent a social worker to talk
to....she had a couple of long discussions with him, then lent him "Zen and
the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"......didn't see him or the book again.
Gwynneth
Cwmcarn
Wales
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Lee wrote:
> Discussions about quality are relevant to the craftsman. But Pirsig
> dosen't say anything new about the subject. The best part about
> the book I suppose is the title. People read the book and think they
> know something about zen.
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:32 AM, wrote:
> > A student in Grad school loved that book, I read that book in Grad scho=
=3D
ol
> and got bored with it. I seemed to have discovered what he was writing ab=
=3D
out
> by the second year of high school. Never finished it because as Lee said =
=3D
it
> was way too scattered toward the end or was that the middle.
> >
> > YMMV,
> > Rick
> >
>
>
>
> --
> --
> Lee Love in Minneapolis
> http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
>
> "Ta tIr na n-=3DF3g ar chul an tI=3D97tIr dlainn trina ch=3DE9ile"=3D97t=
hat is, =3D
"The
> land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent
> within itself." -- John O'Donohue
>
Eric Hansen on mon 31 jan 11
Once in the mid-fifties my Dad was taking me to work in the 1956 Chevy
station wagon and we passed through the steel mill district of South
San Francisco and all the old steam locomotives were lined up in the
switch-yard. I asked Dad about that he said they were there to be cut
up as scrap and melted down for iron. It seems like there were
hundreds, but there were probably only dozens of them at the time. I
remember the strange wonderment, a very sober feeling, not exactly
sadness, but a recognition of something being lost forever not to be
seen again.
Later in the mid-sixties when at Robinson Junior High in Wichita,
Kansas, I saw a little shop with hand-made brass models in HO and
smaller gauge, and remember telling Dad later how exciting it was by
he pooh-poohed, actually kind of bad-mouthed the whole idea. Later
however the bug was to bite him and before arthritis set in he became
a master model railroader. His particular forte was weatherization of
the models, making the photographs of them an illusion of reality.
Most of Dad's art skills were like that, very finely crafted, using
fine motor skills, so later in life he had to give it up. There the
Monet's, Picasso's, and Voulkos' have the advantage; is that their
approach is more suitable for life-long studio work. He still gets on
the computer, that too can be life-long, as least as one has one's
marbles.
- h a n s e n -
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:53 PM, gwynneth rixon wrote=
=3D
:
> My grandmother, then aged about 94, was sent a social worker to talk
> to....she had a couple of long discussions with him, then lent him "Zen a=
=3D
nd
> the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"......didn't see him or the book again.
>
> Gwynneth
> Cwmcarn
> Wales
>
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Lee wrote:
>
>> Discussions about quality are relevant to the craftsman. =3DA0 But Pirsi=
g
>> dosen't say anything new about the subject. =3DA0 =3DA0 The best part ab=
out
>> the book I suppose is the title. =3DA0 People read the book and think th=
ey
>> know something about zen.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 12:32 AM, =3DA0 wrote:
>> > A student in Grad school loved that book, I read that book in Grad sch=
=3D
ool
>> and got bored with it. I seemed to have discovered what he was writing a=
=3D
bout
>> by the second year of high school. Never finished it because as Lee said=
=3D
it
>> was way too scattered toward the end or was that the middle.
>> >
>> > YMMV,
>> > Rick
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> --
>> =3DA0Lee Love in Minneapolis
>> http://mingeisota.blogspot.com/
>>
>> =3DA0"Ta tIr na n-=3DF3g ar chul an tI=3D97tIr dlainn trina ch=3DE9ile"=
=3D97that i=3D
s, "The
>> land of eternal youth is behind the house, a beautiful land fluent
>> within itself." -- John O'Donohue
>>
>
--=3D20
Eric Alan Hansen
Stonehouse Studio Pottery
Alexandria, Virginia
americanpotter.blogspot.com
thesuddenschool.blogspot.com
hansencookbook.blogspot.com
"Simplify, simplify, simplify" - Thoreau
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