Arlo said to dmb:
> Hmm... I went back and re-read this, because I had initially read it in the
> context of setting up the argument, not a statement of conclusions. Two pages
> later she writes, for example, "Yet, the ardent opposition of the two
> dimensions in the beginning of the narration makes the achievement generated
> through their combination appear all the more valuable."
>
> So I'd read her comment as being proclaiming that the classic-romantic had
> become two categorically disjunct ways of thinking, which was the impetus to
> write ZMM and offer a resolution, not that Pirsig himself was arguing that
> the classic and romantic should be, or are ipso facto, categorially disjunct.
dmb says:
I hope you're right about that. Thanks for taking the time.
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