MD The narrator

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@tiscali.co.uk)
Date: Wed Sep 24 2003 - 13:28:49 BST

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    Hi Matt, anyone,

    Matt said:
    >
    > This actually goes along with my "Allegory of Pirsig" post. If we take Pirsig as our example and
    use my allegory as a starting point, we can see two parts of Pirsig's psyche in dialogue with each
    other (ignore the third, the author, Pirsig for the moment). Phaedrus can be seen as the part of
    Pirsig's personality where Dynamic Quality arose out of and the narrator as that conflicting part
    that disagrees with Phaedrus (how much disagreement there really is is a separate, though probably
    more interesting, textual question). The movement from ZMM to Lila is the defeat of the narrator's
    half of Pirsig's personality. It means that the Dynamic Quality that arose in Phaedrus' half
    defeated the degenerate static patterns of the narrator half, and the Phaedrus of Lila is the
    collection of static patterns post-DQ, post Quality insight.

    I think this is right, but it provokes me to ask: what would the narrator have made of the arguments
    in Lila? I wonder if we might be able to generate a few ideas. I write as someone who thinks the
    narrator had less degenerate patterns than those Phaedrus ended up with.....

    Sam

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