[MD] Pressed Ham

[Heather Perella]

Platt,

   [Ham]
> I think you may be reading too much into
> LILA if you feel that it is a testament to
> individualism.

   [Platt]
> Both ZMM and Lila focus on individuals including
> Dusenberry, Rigel, John Wooden Leg
> and numerous other characters including the major
> roles of Phaedrus, the author and
> his son. The very fact that Pirisg chose the novel
> to explain his philsophy reveals
> his testament to the individual. Novels require
> depictions of flesh and blood human
> beings; a doctoral thesis of philosophy or a
> manifesto does not.

     Platt, I agree with Ham that you are reading too
much into Lila.  Pirsigs' books are full of
interactions of individuals, thus, societies and
interactions between these people shape the nature of
his books, too.  Without these interactions you don't
have a novel, also.  Your splitting and schism of the
world into individuals versus collectivism making them
battle it out and fight for world domination, well,
I'm ignorant to this line of thinking.


SA

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