dear diana:
finally i've read an email that i can answer...i really liked your description of dynamic quality. it seems to me that using the example of the lantern festival comes as close to the essence of something which by definition is very hard to grasp. it is as fluid as water...ever shifting...every changing...that to me is dynamic quality. and i believe that is why Pirsig set Lila in a river which is running water symbolizing the dynamism in motion. what happens to water when it stops flowing? it stagnates...it stops supporting life...it dies.
im close to dynamic quality when i see the moon close to the horizon and that big bright platter enthralls me to the point i can't take my eyes off it. in my imagination it takes me back to prehistoric times when we worshipped the moon and the sun. for when you look at these signs in the sky surely they must be magical. and if you take the time to follow it as it sets further down, the imperceptible movement of the moon mirrors the invisibility of dynamic quality...at action but undetected...an invisible plane supporting the visible one.
in The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche describes the Dyonisian principle as the permeating undercurrent from which all Art arises juxtaposed with the Apollonian principle which is necessary to create order out of chaos.
this reminds me of Pirsig's MOQ. in that regards i'd like to discuss why Pirsig chooses Lila as his example of quality. even though she seems to be operating from a biological level, he still finds quality in her. do you find that fascinating?
i do,
renee riu
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