[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 This is truly very sharp , Mary...what an observer you are. Adrie 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
