From: Joe (jhmau@sbcglobal.net)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 19:03:38 BST
On 25 May 2003 5:s4 PM Steve writes:
> Hi Joe,
>
> I'm sorry to say that I don't have a clue about what you are telling me.
If
> you were looking for a response from me, you'll have to dumb it down or
> spell it out a bit more.
Hi Steve:
joe: I hope I am now able to stretch my legs of 'instinctive sense of
reality' to try to say more about 'words'. There is a tension in words!
The pattern which the word represents, contains the intuited, undefined
dynamic!
I am intrigued by Rigel's and the Author's conflict at breakfast. The
tension in the Author's words is sensed by Rigel from previoous, brief,
pleasant exchanges. At breakfast Rigel drives the tension to a moral
conflict in the Author's behavior.
The tension between 'man and 'woman' is used in Lila. Lila is only valuable
dynamically. Yet most of the dramatic actions in the book involve Lila.
The book was named for her. Somehow, hidden though it was, Lila's purpose
governed all. The Author is a 'blowhard', a 'smokestack'. All is
communicated by words with the tensions of their dynamic content. Help me
out here! I am swimming in deep water! Nothing is simple and clear!
Out of this tension, and the previous tensions in ZAMM Pirsig sees a
division of Quality into Dynamic Quality and Static Quality. This division
is only in the word. Is there some mechanism which can separate the
indefinable dynamic quality from a word, and create a special pattern for
it? Awareness, Art, Abstraction are all capabilities of an individual to
create a pattern with the individual's dynamic aspects in the word. MoQ is
prior! SOM is posterior. An instinctive sensing of reality, intuition,
precedes abstraction. Such is my point of view.
Thanks!
Joe
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