--- Platt Holden <pholden@sc.rr.com> wrote: > Hi
Andre:
>
> > Pirsig says quality about "what you like".
>
> Where does he say that?
>
Chapter 19
"Then he saw it. He brought out the knife and excised
the one word that created the entire angering effect
of that sentence. The word was "just." Why should
Quality be just what you like? Why should "what you
like" be "just"? What did "just" mean in this case?
When separated out like this for independent
examination it became apparent that "just" in this
case really didn't mean a damn thing. It was a purely
pejorative term, whose logical contribution to the
sentence was nil. Now, with that word removed, the
sentence became "Quality is what you like," and its
meaning was entirely changed. It had become an
innocuous truism."
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