[MD] Definitions.

[David Thomas]

On 2/15/13 2:56 PM, "ARLO J BENSINGER" <ajb102 at psu.edu> wrote:
>Arlo
> Or they read LILA and saw Lila as the hero and Phaedrus as the enemy, rather
> than the dialogue between them, and are stuck in Lila's assessment of
> Phaedrus-as-intellect as "A big phony smokestack. That's exactly what he is.
> He thinks he's so smart. It's all over his face. And he's not smart. He's
> stupid. He doesn't know anything. He doesn't even know what a hustler is. He
> doesn't even know how stupid he is." (LILA).

D:
Why would Pirsig, the author, put this kind of line in there? Could it just
be that he was a little more aware of his biases.  That he was a "left
brained kind of guy" with little direct experience with the Zen, holistic,
context,  right side. Maybe as caution to others with the same bias to be
aware of that condition. Just like the "Kill the intellect...translation
that  Marsha loves to quote does not mean go blow your brains out. Just
don't let your rationality kill your reasonableness. Don't let your love of
details to let you think you, and you alone, have the entire picture,

Dave