Bodvar to Andre: But it's plain from young P's story, being flunked from college, that it was the mind/matter inconsistencies that motivated his lateral drift. It's correct enough that P. at that time knew no SOM - the mind/matter schism was reality itself - and that the Quality Idea came first and then the "horn dilemma" that resulted in the insight that subjects and objects were fall-outs of Quality ... only THEN was the SOM term coined.
Hi Bodvar, I entirely agree Bodvar and Pirsig confirms this again in the 'On the Road' DVD. When teaching, he was confronted with the Quality idea as an adjective. In other words:'What is a quality piece of writing and how do we get it". Notice also the preamble of ZMM: 'And what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good-'. The question is not about THE good. (I must admit I have never managed to get myself through the Phaedrus dialogue without getting lost and making good sense of it). This continued him on his quest, encountering continuously what we now term SOM, going through SOM and ending ( I am cutting some mighty corners here) by declaring it to be a noun (last page of Lila...this is my interpretation of course) i.e. the postulation of Quality as Reality as solid and as real as a rock. The Tao, the undifferentiated, aesthetic continuum'. Or have I created something out of hot air now?? Andre Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
