[MD] The Greeks?

[Mary]

Hi Krimel and Matt,

> > > [Krimel]
> > > I think the "level" is the collection of all the code
> > > regardless of whether or not it even works all that really matter
> for
> > > it to belong to the "level" is that it can be accessed.
> > >
> > [Mary Replies]
> > You are in good company then.  This is what most people think.
> >
> > [Krimel]
> > I would like to think so and I may have missed something, I certainly
> hope
> > so, but I don't recall anyone here saying that or even commenting one
> way or
> > another on it the several times I have.
> 
[Matt] 
> I have to confess that I'd never thought about it.  I'd just
> naturally assumed something like what Krimel said.  What's
> the other option?  
> 
[Mary Replies] 
When I first read Lila it felt like an intellectual puzzle.  It was a lot of
fun to go through the day assigning everything to its level correctly.
Pirsig said it could be done, after all, "Everything is included.  Nothing
is left out."  So, to satisfy my curiosity I tried to be sure to put things
in the right bucket.  "There", I could say to myself, "I understand the MoQ!
I know how to classify everything I see.  Pirsig's rules work!"  And, so I
believed I understood the point of the MoQ and could move on to the next
thing.  It wasn't until much later that the implications of what he was
saying sunk in.  The things I'd put in the buckets were representations of
patterns of Value.  Not subjects and objects to be classified at all.

Best,
Mary