Hi Adrie & John, On Behalf Of John Carl > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2010 12:38 AM > > Lila, as caracter in the book is postulated by Pirsig with insanity, > The > > author projects this insanity on lila, without > > the clear nessecity for the book or the caracter.There is no ground > nor > > cure , and when "Pheadrus" interacts in the book, > > with the parameters Pirsig allows him to use,(objective observer , > seeker > > of truth), Pheadrus does not interact with this insanity. > > > > > This is what really intrigues me. Thanks for drawing attention to this > aspect. > > The way I take it, and took it, is that the "insanity" of Lila - the > person > - as described in Lila the book, is the perceived insanity of > "otherness" > from the framework of gender consciousness. To the male mind, the > feminine > seems crazy. To the female mind, likewise the male. Only the kwitzak > haderach can interpret. > [Mary Replies] Male/Female dichotomy? That's not what I got out of it at all. I saw Lila as a representation of Biological Level Quality who was (for that reason) considered insane by the Social Level Rigel et al, and basically nolo contendre for those (Phaedrus) at the Intellectual Level.
Insanity, by definition would be the failure to correctly respond at the Social Level. If you fail to respond as prescribed by your local Social Level, you are by definition insane. Someone operating entirely within the Intellectual Level (Pirsig/Phaedrus, the socially inept intellectual) would not even recognize the concept of "insanity" and thus, would not "respond" to it, because at the Intellectual Level insanity as a concept does not exist. So, we have our three major characters, each representing (via literary illusion) one of the three higher levels of Static Quality: Biological = Lila Social = Rigel Intellectual = Pirsig/narrator And, now that I think about it, Pirsig's boat, or even the river itself, represented the Inorganic Level. No? Mary 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/md/archives.html
