In a message dated 2/23/01 7:18:10 AM Central Standard Time,
ThracianBard@worldnet.att.net writes:
> I would submit that DQ is not so much the evolutionary event that leads to
> the next level of SQ, as it is the recognition and acceptance of what has
> always been, but because of abstract conventions, which are indeed the
> result of evolution, have been hidden from us in much the same way as the
> narrator in ZMM fails to accept and see his true self, Phaedrus, and
> resultantly blocks this view from his son, until they remove their
> metaphorical helmets at the end of the book. Let's remove our helmets,
> starting with the concept of "zero", and take a look around.
Wow. A really good post. The above quote feels correct to me. It's easy to
get bogged down in the middle sections of ZMM and LILA, but I think the
importance of the endings of both books is sometimes forgotten.
Jon
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