[MD] The Word is Not the Thing

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Arlo 

16 Sep. you wrote:

> Of course you do, Bo. Which is why I rarely bother to try to talk to
> you. As soon as someone doesn't bow at the altar of Bo, you dismiss
> them as being somehow "SOM". As for "lead balloonish", one has only
> to read your response to me. Ai yi yi..

> So like Arlo said before, why do you even bother asking him what he
> thinks, since he is so poorly informed, so woefully inadequate in
> his "take", so horribly mired in that dreadful "SOM" that only Bo
> has overcome (well, and those who agree with Bo, to be sure)?

I asked about your opinion on the said quote (that IMO confirms both 
the S/O-intellect and the MOQ a meta-level) but like the Cardinal who 
refused to look into Galileo's telescope you stick to your preconceived 
opinion. Don't think I don't know that there are other parts that 
contradicts it, but when Pirsig writes freely it pops up naturally - like 
the unexpected "particle" in a physicist's equation -  yet when directly 
asked he denies it ... and confirms it, just to secure the ambiguity.

Bodvar