From: SQUONKSTAIL@aol.com
Date: Wed Jun 11 2003 - 02:03:21 BST
Matt:
Wasn't it Pirsig himself who said that everything is an analogy?
Ah, here it is:
"Of course it's an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians
don't know that." (Ch. 30, ZMM)
Squonk:
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.
You see, some analogies - are better - than others. ;)
Dynamic Quality isn't an analogy. DQ is where the best analogies come from.
Matt:
Of course some analogies are better than others, when have I ever said that
they weren't?
But, by saying that DQ isn't an analogy, you hypostatize DQ just as Plato
hypostatized the Good, which makes you a dialectician, a Platonic metaphysician
of the kind that Pirsig railed against in ZMM. I simply wanted to point this
out to anybody who thought that Squonk was trying to evade my charge. Instead
of evading it, Squonk took it head on and essentially said, "Yes, I am a
metaphysician of the kind that Pirsig dislikes in ZMM."
Matt
sq: OK, how about this? The best analogies are a tension between the static
repertoire of our language and
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