April 2, 2003

  • I Can Groove to That ~


    I recently reread Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.  It's one of those books that's a philosophy text disguised as a novel.  But even so, there's some really good "makes you think" stuff in there.  It was funny though, he spent something like 200 pages working through his argument to prove that the subjective-objective split is a false duality.  But he could have saved all that time if he'd started the book with these sentences instead of sticking them into an obscure paragraph in the middle.


    "Man, will you please, kindly dig it," he remembered one of them saying, "and hold up on all those wonderful seven-dollar question?  If you got to ask what is it all the time, you'll never get time to know." [emphasis in the original]


    After the odd sound of 60's talk stops ringing in your ear, does it occur to you what occured to me?  We don't have anything that has replaced "dig it," "groove on it," "feel that vibe."  These days you start talking about how you just know cause you know, baby, and you'll be labeled one of those kind.  You know those kind who think that the subjective is real.  Your intellectual friends will suddenly remember the appointment to get their husband neutered and pick the dog's dry-cleaning. 


    So to protest the loss, I'm going out into this gorgeous afternoon where I plan to lie on the grass and look at a daffodil up close and personal.  Like, to just, groove on it, man.

Comments (14)

  • Or if something has replaced those phrases, I haven't figured them out... I think it's TMobile phones that do the commercials with the elderly people out on skateboards and driving in lowrider cars - they are funny, but they grab the lingo of today - "Getting my groove on" "Chilling with my homefriends."

    Well enjoy the sun ya dig

  • More it is obscure and more it ' intellectual . Did you read Sartre " the being and the emptyness " ( l ' Etre et le Néant ) ? The first page is a model of obscurity ( darkness ? ) . However Sartre has been admired and he is yet .

    but you have such a synthetisis mind you have made a resume in only one sentence of this IMPORTANT book !

    Love       Michel

    ps : dream close the daffodils .....

  • Can ya dig it? I KNEW that you could!

  • o/

    God Bless - Dale

  • I thought it had just been shortened to "dig"..... Snoop Dog says that all the time.

    Objective reality is a scary proposition for most people, I think,  because it removes the power of their opinion.


  • We'll keep on spending sunny days this way..
    We're gonna talk and laugh our time away...
    I     feel it coming closer day by day..
    Life would be extasy, you and me endlessly...
    Groovin, on a Sunday afternoon..
    Really, couldn't get away to soon.
    No, No, No, No..
    Groovin...Groovin... 

  • I read that book for a class in high school, and it's definitely very deep and thought-provoking! 

  • Hey, you forgot "grok."

    I think subjective reality can in itself be a real intellectual challenge...believing only in agreed-upon, objective "reality" is certainly unstimulating, after all.  Heck, most of our modern philosophers talk about subjective reality all the time, right?

    I have got to get out and read that book, though, people keep recommending it to me.

  • I can dig that.

  • Hey chick, I can dig it!  Hope you had a groovy time with the daffodils.  Groove on!

  • Grazin in the grass is a gas...
    And it's real, so real, so real,
    so real, so real, so real~
    Can you dig it?~
    I can dig it, he can dig it,
    she can dig it, we can dig it,
    they can dig it, you can dig it...
    (You spoke volumes to me here.)

  • I just could not get through that book. Do I need to give it another chance, then?

  • Hey babe, why not get down and get your groove on over a sip of rum while you lay it down on my plank, dig?
     
    HA!
     
    Sail on… sail on righteously man!

  • I work 14 hour days to support this? [emphasis in the original]

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