MYSTIC ROG AGREES WITH KEV AGAIN
To Platt and Kevin and Struan and Horse and Company;
I have to agree with Kevin completely on his more representative quoting of
Lila. In fact, as I was researching an answer to Platt's objections, Kevin
gave every argument I was gonna give and a few more to boot. Lila is about
rejecting all static patterns in favor of DQ.
Pardon me for being so concise and unverbose, but Kevin is quite right about
Pirsig being a mystic (in the sense that a mystic pursues DQ), and that
mystic unpatterned reality is beyond the patterns of the intellect. I don't
think he sees this static/dynamic moral code as a level, and I don't either,
but other than this disagreement, I think Kevin is interpreting Lila much
closer to "the TRUTH. " Pages 427 to 431 make this abundantly clear.
As for Horse's interpretation of Lila as more of a balance between mysticism
and rationalism, I wanted it to be true for a long time, but I just don't see
this as the case. The final few chapters are a rejection of even the more
dynamic patterns of the intellect. They are post intellectual. They are
about enlightenment into pure DQ. His one moral act was not a reasoned
explanation of Lila's quality, it was a spontaneous act. I do not completely
understand it yet.
Mystic Rog
PS -- Struan, there is only the imposter here. Experience claimed me long
ago!.
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