From: Rebecca Temmer (ratemmer.lists@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 25 2005 - 21:15:22 BST
Hi Mark,
Briefly (because i'm supposed to be writing a news aritcle right now), maybe
DQ in this sense is anything that's not "routine maintenance".
Significantly, you're evolving towards something right?... the further an
end point you want to get to, the more dynamic your solution is going to
have to be.
Let's say you ... [grappling with my absurdly limited knowledge of
motorcycles] not only replace, but change a major part of the bike so that
it runs differently; so it runs 'better'. Is that dynamic quality at work?
Going above and beyond what the bike would have been able to do without that
new part? Maybe the new bike goes faster, maybe it's louder, maybe it's
quieter - depends on what you want to do.
Eventually you could change all the parts so that your motorcycle runs
'better' (however you want to define that) than the original combination of
parts (questions of whether it's still the same cycle aside).
Dynamic quality just breaks down static patterns right (yes this is a real
question, not rhetorical)? It doesn't necessarily have to leave 'better'
static patterns in its wake - just different patterns, a reorganization.
((Aside: Really I never liked Pirsig's emphasis on dynamic over static
quality, myself... I'm more of a 'balance' girl, myself.))
I think it would be really dynamic if you could just rearrange the whole
bike into a machine that could teleport you instantly from one place to
another. :) [ recognizing that this would totally eliminate the purpose of
the bike for some... ]
Gak, that was a lot of poorly constructed mental spillage - not a lot of
time here, sorry folks.
Back to 'work'
Rebecca
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