Doug Renselle (renselle@on-net.net)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 05:02:09 +0100
Hi Platt and TLS,
See below -
Platt Holden wrote:
>
> Hi Doug,
>
> > Are you saying ultimate reality is pure DQ?
> >
> > The violin metaphor is a good one to use here: DQ + SQ in balance
...
> A beautiful metaphor!
...
> Once in awhile, however, we get a fleeting glimpse of supernal beauty,
> perhaps from the violin player in your metaphor if his name is Issac
> Stearn.
>
Platt,
Absolutely! I live for these Quality Events.
They are frequent now in MoQ!
Doug Renselle.
> Incidentally, an aesthetically astute photographer or painter might
> create
> a framed object of beauty out of those chaotic strings in a pile on
> the
> floor, proving once again the wisdom of your "many contexts, many
> truths"
> insight.
>
> Platt
Platt,
Yes, isn't the painter's art interesting from the view of SQ, DQ, and an
unlimited set of observer's contexts? Aren't oils and watercolor, etc.
interesting media to portray so much SQ but garner so many and varied
Quality Events?
I once reviewed and adapted Robert Browning's great poem, 'My Last
Duchess.' I was much, much younger then. Browning viewed the oil
painting of his protagonist's lover as her prison, her final death
trap. The vividness of the poem brings the unseen painting out of DQ as
if it were real, right in front of the reader's eyes!
Actually, I have been a student of context for almost two decades. It
started when I read Christopher Alexander's 'Notes on the Synthesis of
Form,' the first time. (His other profound works are mentioned here in
TLS rather often.)
Pirsig is the one who really helped me unify the:
quanton(many contexts, many truths): q(mc,mt)
-- so it is his wisdom, not mine. I just use different words than his.
If you read his three works: ZMM, Lila, and SODV, you see that
unification of q(mc,mt) stand out clearly once you are aware of it.
SODV made it clearest to me, the first time I read it. But on
re-reading ZMM and Lila, he broaches it subtly there too.
So, Pirsig opened my eyes to this first. I am unsure anyone else has
done it prior. I have not read as many other philosophers as many of
our TLS mates.
Thanks for the excellent emails you offer TLS, Platt.
Mtty,
Doug Renselle.
-- "Don't throw away those Mu answers. . .They're the ones you GROW on!"By Robert M. Pirsig, in 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,' p. 290, Bantam (paperback), 28th edition, 1982.
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