[MD] Where does DQ end and SQ begin and SQ end and DQ begin? It's all bananas isn't it?

[ARLO JAMES BENSINGER JR]

[David]
Overheard in Helen Keller's dining room:
"How are we going to feed her before she learns the word for mouth?"

[Arlo]
I don't know what your point is, either to say (1) I don't understand Pirsig's basic distinction, or (2) I disagree with Pirsig's basic distinction, since these words evidence both, but either way there is little I can add to these. 

[Jan Anders]
Yes, and it becomes very descriptive when we look at circular vawes in water spreading from an event like a raindrops on a pond. The growing rings describes well the static roundness of the circle AND the change of its size and height in time, as a result from the direct conditions. What does that tell us?

[Arlo]
I like the ripples/pond analogy. It captures the emergent nature of subsequent levels, and it captures the (agenic)expansionist nature of subsequent levels. I like your use of the analogy to describe varying degrees of persistence (durability and diffusion) as deriving (depending as it were) on the Quality event.