Dave Thomas (dlt44@ipa.net)
Tue, 27 Jan 1998 05:10:07 +0100
Diana
Looks good. But in doing some rereading of both these principles and Lila I
found a couple of words that show up in Lila that seem quite important that I
don't find in the principles.
Pirsig asks it this way on page 140 hardback Lila:
"Why, for example, should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon,
hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize
themselves into a professor of chemistry?"
Then on 143 finally answers his question thus:
"The reason atoms become chemistry professors has got to be that something in
nature does not like laws of chemical equilibrium or the law of gravity or the
laws of thermodynamics or any other law that restricts the molecules' freedom.
So is not the underlying "Why?" of the moral order, freedom, choice or both,
words which Pirsig uses in various places in a similar context. And if so are
these not fundamentals?
Dave
Watching closely for the sound of the other shoe.
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