From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 14:18:41 GMT
DMB, All.
What do you make of Pirsig's "Afterward" to ZMM where he ponders his
son's death and writes:
"What had to be seen was the Chris I missed so badly was not an
object but a pattern, and that although the pattern included the flesh and
blood of Chris, that was not all there was to it. The pattern was larger
than Chris and myself, and related us in ways the neither of us
understood completely and neither of us was in complete control of."
Also:
"Some time later it became clearer that these thoughts were something
very close to statements found in many 'primative' cultures. If you take
that part of the pattern that is not the flesh and bones of Chris and call it
the 'spirit' of Chris or the 'ghost' of Chris, then you can say without
further translation that the spirit or ghost of Chris is looking for a new
body to enter."
Finally:
"What is seen now so much more clearly is that although the names
keep changing and the bodies keep changing, the larger pattern that
holds us all together goes on and on. In terms of this larger pattern the
lines at the end of this book still stand. We have won it. Things are
better now. You can sort of tell these things."
Platt
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