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Obviously spoken by someone knowing little of classical music... Have you ever listened to Bach's Goldberg Variations? On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:35 AM, John Carl wrote: > Well said Andre, > > >> Pirsig does not want his metaphysics to be another prison. Hence the >> DQ/SQ divisions... and (if you like) the notion of the continuation of >> evolutionary progress (which is 'open-ended'). That is: it remains >> provisional. > > > > Pirsig in ZAMM quotes jazz musicians - jazz, a uniquely new American Art - > influencing the culture at large, Kerouac adopted Jazz style to literature > and inspired a new generation of writers to break free from the prison of > formal rigidity. > > Classical symphonys, with every note defined and in its place, have their > beauty, Bach in his realm, Kant in his. Breathtaking! but the MoQ is more > like Jazz, > > Jazz is not chaotic at its roots. It might seem so to those overly-fond of > having every note defined, but the musical structure dictates a harmonious > unity that is not intellectually defined, but sensed, and felt, and played > with freedom. The MoQ invites harmonious riffs, not apparent to the > original composer and discovered in the playing. > > "Man if you could just drop all them high-falutin' pretensions and DIG it" > > > > John 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/
