Joe asked DMB:
Would you mind telling me your reaction to the words capitalized? Is there any
hidden meaning?
dmb says:
My reaction? You must mean to ask about my INTENTIONS, which were to highlight
the meaning of the quotes. It was intended to emphasize THE SENSE in which
Quality is undivided or undifferentiated. As you can plainly see, I hope,
Quality is undifferentiated IN THE SENSE that there are not yet any
INTELLECTUAL divisions or differences, the moment of VISION before these
abstractions or definitions are added.
"Any INTELLECTUALLY CONCEIVED object is always in the past and therefore
unreal. REALITY is always the MOMENT OF VISION BEFORE the intellectualization
takes place. There is no other reality. This PRE-INTELLECTUAL REALITY is what
Phædrus felt he had properly identified as Quality. Since all intellectually
identifiable things must emerge from this pre-intellectual reality, Quality is
the parent, the source of all subjects and objects." --Pirsig in ZAMM
"The central reality of mysticism, the reality that Phaedrus had called
'Quality' in his first book, is not a metaphysical chess piece. Quality doesn't
have to be defined. You understand it without definition, ahead of definition.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to INTELLECTUAL
ABSTRACTIONS. Quality is indivisible, undefinable and unknowable IN THE SENSE
that there is a KNOWER AND A KNOWN [because knowers or subjects and knowns or
objects are intellectual concepts too], but a metaphysics can be none of these
things. A metaphysics [including the metaphysics of Quality, of course] must be
divisible, definable, and knowable, or there isn't any metaphysics." --Pirsig
in LILA
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