[MD] The Word is Not the Thing

[Arlo Bensinger]

[Andre]
Well Arlo...as Phaedrus told De Weese (about the lightbulb) : you 
have to have some familiarity!

[Arlo]
I suppose. As I said, finding linguistic contradiction in language is 
a kid's game. And when wielded well, a Koan. Everyone is familiar 
with the former, many the latter. I remember the day my daughter 
"discovered" the sentence "this statement is false", I could see the 
smoke coming from her ears (a la Mudd's Women). Zeno's paradoxes are 
still fun tavern topics. And if "all this is just an analogy" means 
that for some Pirsig is "profoundly incoherent" for setting himself 
up for a recursive linguistic contradiction, then so be it...