From: Dan Glover (daneglover@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Nov 22 2003 - 07:41:49 GMT
Hello everyone
>From: "Wim Nusselder" <wim.nusselder@antenna.nl>
>Reply-To: moq_discuss@moq.org
>To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
>Subject: Re: MD When is a metaphysics not a metaphysics?
>Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:11:32 +0100
>
>Wim:
>I always had the impression that Quality according to Pirsig consists of
>two
>parts of which one (DQ) is undefined and the other (sq) IS defined. (I even
>remember reading some quote where he said that explicitly. Was it in
>'Lila's
>Child' or in his correspondence with Anthony as quoted in his textbook?)
>Where did you find Pirsig's assertion that a MoQ is a contradiction in
>terms? I guess it is in a (more rhetorical) context that doesn't really
>allow for your use of the statement.
Hi Wim
The annotation you remember reading appeared in the first draft of LILA'S
CHILD in response to whether it is possible to define the four levels. You
might remember that I had to delete a number of posts from that edition of
LC after one of the contributors changed their mind about allowing me the
use of their posts. The annotation you mention was in response to one of
those posts I had to delete so it too ended up being cut from the finished
book. Robert Pirsig wrote:
"It is only Dynamic Quality I think is impossible to define. I think
definition is both possible and desirable for the static levels. I just
didn't do it because these levels seemed so obvious. But in view of all the
trouble people are having I'm doing it now in these notes."
Since this annotation is so important, perhaps I can work it into a future
edition.
Thank you for calling it to my attention.
Dan
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