On 12 Feb 2010 at 7:29, X Acto wrote:
> I'm not sure I agree with your assertion that Dynamic Quality is non verbal,
> it's too
> broad a generalization that supports a correspondance viewpoint. Dynamic
> Quality
> as I understand the term, means the plural, the unrecognizable, the defiance
> of
> understanding, the unlimited, flux, ect...
Pirsig wrote:
"The same thing that's wrong with philosphology when it tries to control
and devour philosophy is wrong with metaphysics when it tries to devour
the world intellectually. It attempts to capture the Dynamic with a static
pattern. But it never does. You never get it right. So why try?" (Lila, 32)
I would argue that even though DQ cannot be captured by S/O
intellectual verbal patterns it can be captured by art (including poetry)
when the artwork provides a glimpse of the "indeterminate divine."
For example:
For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity,
Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power
To chasten and subdue. And I have felt
A presence that disturbs me with the joy
Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime
Of something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
And the round ocean and the living air,
And the blue sky, and in the mind of man;
A motion and a spirit, that impels
All thinking things, all objects of all thought,
And rolls through all things.
-- Wordsworth
Regards,
Platt
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