[MD] Art and Stories

[Joseph Maurer]

On 6/1/10 4:49 AM, "Steven Peterson" <peterson.steve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> Just finished Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel, the latest from the
> author of Life of Pi--one of my all-time favorites:
> 
> "Fiction and nonfiction are not so easily divided. Fiction may not be
> real, but it¹s true; it goes beyond the garland of facts to get to
> emotional and psychological truths. As for nonfiction, for history, it
> may be real, but its truth is slippery, hard to access, with no fixed
> meaning bolted to it. If history doesn¹t become story, it dies to
> everyone except the historian. Art is the suitcase of history,
> carrying the essentials. Art is the life buoy of history. Art is seed,
> art is memory, art is vaccine."
> 
> ³In addition to the knowledge of history...we need the understanding
> of art. Stories identify, unify, give meaning to. Just as music is
> noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a
> story is life that makes sense."
> 
> Have you read this? I'm not sure what to say about that last bit right
> now other than that it grabbed me. I'd be interested in hearing your
> thougts while I wait for the dust to settle.
> 
> Best,
> Steve

Hi Steven and all,
 
Imho: An evolutionary view of reality identifies a hierarchy of levels in
existence.  We experience existence in different flavors.  Pirsig formulates
reality as DQ/SQ.  There are innumerable events every second.
 
My interpretation of Pirsig¹s view of DQ(perception)/SQ(conception)
identifies a dialog identifying evolutionary levels creating history.  Some
events are indefinable DQ/SQ perception, others are definable DQ/SQ
conception depending on our awareness in the value in the dialog.  EG, an
emotion is a perception (indefinable).  The higher emotional and higher
intellectual levels are only perception, identified in the otherwise
inexplicable activity of heroes.
 
In the schema for evolution from esoteric literature there are 4 DQ/SQ
definable levels, the inorganic, organic1 (reproduction by the splitting of
a single cell), organic 2 (reproduction by the combination of an egg and
sperm cell) and the Intellectual level.  There are three indefinable DQ/SQ
levels: The emotional level, the higher emotional level, and the higher
intellectual level.  The last two are perceived in the actions of heroes.
 
Joe

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