[MD] Platt's Individual Level

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Gene]
But the ideas Do exist there, right? If I wrote something down and hid it, 
then forgot it, then that idea would end up in Oblivion. So the idea still 
exists, somewhere.

[Plattman]
Where? Oblivion means nowhere.

[The Jarloker]
"Oblivion" must be somewhere, since a hundred years later the idea could be 
retrieved.

What The Plattman wants to call "oblivion" is for Pirsig the "collective 
consciousness of all communicating mankind". "The mythos is a building of 
analogues upon analogues upon analogues. These fill the collective 
consciousness of all communicating mankind. Every last bit of it." It is, 
"the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are 
united in the body of man."