Stephen,
Looking for a way to 'permanently experience DQ' contradicts the idea of DQ.
DQ is something that hits in a moment, when a person perceives Quality that
is inextricably connected with the moment in which she perceives it. I like
Pirsig's music example, which basically said that if you hear a song in a
certain condition, you find some strange beauty in it. But when you buy the
CD, it's good, but not as good as it was when you first heard it in those
certain circumstances. So, it has DQ, because of the experience, but also
sQ, because you still think it's good. That was a pretty bad recapitulation,
but i think it gives you some idea of what he was saying. As for this talk
of where Quality is and whether or not it is in a void, maybe we need to go
way back to Pirsig's explanation in ZAMM- the event in which one realizes a
thing's inherent goodness. Quality is in the pre-intellectual perception of
thing.
rasheed
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