[DMB] But of course Pirsig drops the classic-romantic distinction because romantic thinking is still thinking and so distinguishable from DQ, which is pre-intellectal or pre-conceptal and prior to any kind of thinking.
[Re: Goya] For Goya, art is the child of reason in combination with imagination." (Text by Sarah C. Schaefer) [Arlo] Yes, I think Goya's thoughts align more with ZMM's synthesis of classic and romantic understanding than with LILA's DQ/SQ. It was with his statement that "Imagination abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters" that I was squinting a bit and seeing the necessary harmony between DQ and SQ come through (something like "DQ abandoned by SQ produces chaos"), but this was only an exercise in vague symmetry. 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
