[MD] What does Pirsig mean by metaphysics?

[MarshaV]

Plu-eeze!  

Obviously spoken by someone knowing little of classical music...

Have you ever listened to Bach's Goldberg Variations?




On Jan 28, 2010, at 11:35 AM, John Carl wrote:

> Well said Andre,
> 
> 
>> Pirsig does not want his metaphysics to be another prison. Hence the
>> DQ/SQ divisions... and (if you like) the notion of the continuation of
>> evolutionary progress (which is 'open-ended'). That is: it remains
>> provisional.
> 
> 
> 
> Pirsig in ZAMM quotes jazz musicians - jazz, a uniquely new American  Art -
> influencing the culture at large, Kerouac adopted Jazz style to literature
> and inspired a new generation of writers to break free from the prison of
> formal rigidity.
> 
> Classical symphonys, with every note defined and in its place, have their
> beauty, Bach in his realm, Kant in his. Breathtaking!  but the MoQ is more
> like Jazz,
> 
> Jazz is not chaotic at its roots.  It might seem so to those overly-fond of
> having every note defined, but the musical structure dictates a harmonious
> unity that is not intellectually defined, but sensed, and felt, and played
> with freedom.  The MoQ invites harmonious riffs, not apparent to the
> original composer and discovered in the playing.
> 
> "Man if you could just drop all them high-falutin' pretensions and DIG it"
> 
> 
> 
> John