[MD] Intellectual Level

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[Marsha]
Just to be clear...  

[Pirsig]
A subject-object metaphysics is in fact a metaphysics in which the first
division of Quality - the first slice of undivided experience ­ is into
subjects and objects. ... What he had seen is that there is a metaphysical box
that sits above these two boxes, Quality itself. And once he'd seen this he
also saw a huge number of ways in which Quality can be divided. Subjects and
objects are just one of the ways. (LILA)

[Arlo]
Its clear that "SOM", as Pirsig explains it, is not simply the "subjects" and
"objects" of grammar, but a very particular metaphysical position about the
primary division of reality.