From: johnny moral (johnnymoral@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 22:58:24 GMT
>Hi, (as a longtime lurker)
>
>A question which I came up while reading again ZMM, after having read it
>for many times (and also Lila), there is still a thing that bothers me
>looking at Quality.
>
>I know Pirsig talks about the big Quality, compared with the Tao, the
>thing you can't measure.
>
>But I still think there is also this Little Quality,
>f.e. This painting has more quality than that other painting, or this
>bike is better than that one.
>In both cases you only have to look at the characteristics (?) or
>properties of the object.
> Another example is a good and bad knife. One is a normal sharp
>knife, the other f.e broken.
>The first one has more 'Little quality' because it fullfills better its
>function.
>
>Can anybody tell me the relation between the two of them? Or, is there
>any relation?
Sure Marc,
A dull knife has poor "little quality" but has "big quality" (or rather
quality has it) because knives get dull as they are used, it is a pattern
like any pattern. individually, patterns are "little quality". the pattern
of a knife is to be sharp, so that is where its quality would be. the
pattern of steel being malleable also is "little quality", so knives getting
dull is where its quality is. big quality puts these and all other patterns
together and makes them fight it out to see which is a stronger pattern (the
pattern of metal being malleable is of higher quality than the pattern of
knives staying sharp, so knives get dull eventually)
johnny
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