[MD] brilljant abstraction

[Fam. Kintziger-Karaca]

[Mary Replies] 
Male/Female dichotomy?  That's not what I got out of it at all.  I saw Lila
as a representation of Biological Level Quality who was (for that reason)
considered insane by the Social Level Rigel et al, and basically nolo
contendre for those (Phaedrus) at the Intellectual Level.

Insanity, by definition would be the failure to correctly respond at the
Social Level.  If you fail to respond as prescribed by your local Social
Level, you are by definition insane.  Someone operating entirely within the
Intellectual Level (Pirsig/Phaedrus, the socially inept intellectual) would
not even recognize the concept of "insanity" and thus, would not "respond"
to it, because at the Intellectual Level insanity as a concept does not
exist.

So, we have our three major characters, each representing (via literary
illusion) one of the three higher levels of Static Quality:

Biological = Lila
Social = Rigel
Intellectual = Pirsig/narrator

And, now that I think about it, Pirsig's boat, or even the river itself,
represented the Inorganic Level.

No?

Mary

This is truly very sharp , Mary...what an observer you are.
Adrie