Phaedrus (was Re: Memory)

[Doug Millison]

At 11:30 PM +0100 9/10/99, JL wrote:
>_Zen & The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_.

I read it 20+ years ago (about the time I was reading through Pynchon
seriously, after stumbling onto GR in the library at Camp Howze, 3 km south
of the 38th parallel in the Republic of Korea) as a college student and
liked it. My favorite teacher, Todd Willy (then chair of UC Berkeley's
Rhetoric Department), liked it, too, although he found it overly
sentimental. Willy was tempted to make it assigned reading in the Rhetoric
of the Novel course he used to teach, where he often treated ostensibly
"non-fiction" autobiographical books as novels (he taught Mishima Yukio's
autobiographical essay, _Sun and Steel_ as a novel, for example).  If I
remember correctly, there's a part in it that talks about the positive
benefits of sitting around and watching TV, which at the time I found
comforting.

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