[MD] question: MOQ, Pirsigism, passionate emotion

[Michael R. Brown]

Hi Joseph -

Sorry for the long delay in answering - am email swamped and had to let this 
thread languish.

> Emotions are DQ only.

But they can leave SQ traces, I think, as in art-structures. And memory too. 
Isn't ZAMM a genuine *memoir*? Makes me think of Walter Pater: "To burn 
always with this hard, gem-like flame..." - Quite a thing he did there, 
making the flame hard and crystalline. Heraclitus would have a word with 
him.

> I am not aware that the expressions for these passions will use DQ/SQ in 
> the same way by each individual at an intellectual level.

I just can't help feel that at some other level, there has to be more of a 
fusion. The living moment surely has both, and more. In fact, the living 
moment came first. Maybe I'm coming at all of this from an inductive 
direction? I'm a naughty emo-Aristotelian, but I think it can all work out.

> It takes a bit of self-study and a lot of practice to even be certain of 
> what I am trying express, let alone whether I have chosen the right words.

Thanks for giving that look inside. Reminds me of the difficult I've talked 
to some folks who like Korzybski about - trying to speak in E-Prime.


MRB
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