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From: alex@warwick.UUCP (Frank N Furter)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Problems With Science Fiction Today - a reply
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 00:08:34 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 13 00:08:34 1985
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In article <7982@ucbvax.ARPA> mwm@ucbvax.UUCP (Mike (I'll be mellow when I'm dead) Meyer) writes:
>In article <194@yetti.UUCP> oz@yetti.UUCP writes:
>>	Nonsense !! The often-hazy thing called "QUALITY" does exist, but you
>>	will not know it until it hits you right on the face. (For edification,
>>	refer to ZEN_AND_THE_ART_OF_MOTORCYCLE_MAINTENANCE by R. M. Pirsig)
>
>Yup, you're right - I'll know quailty when it hits me in the face. For
>instance, any book that can (intentionally) keep me laughing as long as
>NOTB did is definetly QUALITY. Or maybe quality in an artistic field is
>subjective, not objective? Since you seem to think that it's objective,
>why don't you let the rest of the world in on your measurement technics.

Pirsig, in Zen&tAoMM, actually says that Quality is OUTSIDE of subjective
and objective, it is a completely different mode. READ THIS BOOK. It really
is very good.


					--Alex


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