I can only dream of being able to use "specificity" so effortlessly.
Heh. I use it all the time, but I'll bet Tim was using it in a non-biological context.
I miss Oz. He'd get it. He wouldn't say anything, but he'd get it.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
The Minearverse 3: The Network Is a Harsh Mistress
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
Polter-Cow - Jan 27, 2005 12:47:58 pm PST #4142 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
DavidS - Jan 27, 2005 12:52:37 pm PST #4143 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Oh! Tag?
Of course.
JohnSweden - Jan 27, 2005 1:07:31 pm PST #4144 of 10001
I can't even.
She's magisplenetic.
And female while UnTall. Thus, closer to the earth. That's powerful medicine, right there.
Allyson - Jan 27, 2005 1:09:39 pm PST #4145 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
And I have pretty hair.
Strega - Jan 27, 2005 1:30:45 pm PST #4146 of 10001
I liked Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance a lot. I like quantifying things that aren't quantifiable. It's fun!
It also passed the time during a drive from Illinois; the friend I was traveling with had also read it, and we were both shocked to discover that we'd come away from it with totally different views of what "quality" was. I think arguing about it kept us occupied through all of Ohio.
Betsy HP - Jan 27, 2005 1:32:30 pm PST #4147 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
It also made me very startled when wossname started talking about "The QUAN" in that Tom Cruise movie. I kept thinking, "Pirsig's back?"
§ ita § - Jan 27, 2005 2:02:36 pm PST #4148 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance drove me bugfuck, to the point where I annotated the margins.
I got a very "well, aren't you special vibe off the whole thing. On the up side, a guy who tried to stalk me in university had gone by the net alias of phaedrus, and suddenly I understood him even better.
arby - Jan 27, 2005 2:36:42 pm PST #4149 of 10001
Guy #1: Man, there are so many hipsters around. I hate hipsters! Guy #2: You're at the wrong place. That's like going to Vegas only to say "I hate titties!" --The Warsaw, Williamsburg (OINY)
I love that book. Love it. Want to marry it and have a jillion of its babies. I also read it in 9th grade, so YPirsigMV.
Was very disappointed by the "sequel" - Lila? Something like that. Suuuucked.
Consuela - Jan 27, 2005 3:35:00 pm PST #4150 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I read Zen on a long bike ride down the Oregon and California coasts, and sat on the beach and argued with Pirsig a lot. It was interesting, but I was too old for it, being already 28 by that time.
I'm now too old to read Heinlein and enjoy him much as well. I do recall loving the concept of Number of the Beast, with the infinite universes and all, but the end left me baffled and I'm disinclined to go back and find out what really happened.
I admit that I do still say, "What I tell you three times is true," once in a while.
DCJensen - Jan 27, 2005 3:41:21 pm PST #4151 of 10001
All is well that ends in pizza.
Number of the Beast spurred me to read and re-read a number of books and stories he referenced in the work.