On 6/1/10 4:49 AM, "Steven Peterson" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All, > > Just finished Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, the latest from the > author of Life of Pi--one of my all-time favorites: > > "Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be > real, but it¹s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to > emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it > may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed > meaning bolted to it. If history doesn¹t become story, it dies to > everyone except the historian. Art is the suitcase of history, > carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed, > art is memory, art is vaccine." > > ³In addition to the knowledge of history...we need the understanding > of art. Stories identify, unify, give meaning to. Just as music is > noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a > story is life that makes sense." > > Have you read this? I'm not sure what to say about that last bit right > now other than that it grabbed me. I'd be interested in hearing your > thougts while I wait for the dust to settle. > > Best, > Steve Hi Steven and all, Imho: An evolutionary view of reality identifies a hierarchy of levels in existence. We experience existence in different flavors. Pirsig formulates reality as DQ/SQ. There are innumerable events every second. My interpretation of Pirsig¹s view of DQ(perception)/SQ(conception) identifies a dialog identifying evolutionary levels creating history. Some events are indefinable DQ/SQ perception, others are definable DQ/SQ conception depending on our awareness in the value in the dialog. EG, an emotion is a perception (indefinable). The higher emotional and higher intellectual levels are only perception, identified in the otherwise inexplicable activity of heroes. In the schema for evolution from esoteric literature there are 4 DQ/SQ definable levels, the inorganic, organic1 (reproduction by the splitting of a single cell), organic 2 (reproduction by the combination of an egg and sperm cell) and the Intellectual level. There are three indefinable DQ/SQ levels: The emotional level, the higher emotional level, and the higher intellectual level. The last two are perceived in the actions of heroes. Joe > 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 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
