Pirsig has begun
to ramble. He is now beginning to touch upon topics in my mind does not need
that much explanation. Granted the way that he discusses the topics of
functions components and method is concise considering what he has written up
until this point. But I hope he has not explained in these two chapters in vain
because I was really enjoying this book.
The scientific
method is something that I have explored for years, thanks for the review Mr.
Pirsig. I honestly believe that the chapter was unnecessary, at least for me.
The chapter that covered the general idea of hierarchy and system was more amusing
in the way that it explored the idea of the nonsensical. The way man lives
today, he must be willing to except that he cannot understand everything
because context is necessary to understand the larger picture for many
situations. I find this topic highly relatable because there are many times
where I just have to accept ideas or situations as they are without the full
context of the situation. In fact we all do, society deems it necessary because
of specialization. That brings me back to a topic I thoroughly enjoyed from
Pirsig.
To the point,
I believed in the opening day of the second part of his novel he has begun to
stray from the point I thought he was getting at. Yet there may be potential
with the way that Pirsig left the reader in the final paragraph. The chance
with death that came so close to them on the highway, I knew it had to happen
sooner or later. It finally has, something that I has worried me on the subject
of bicycles and motorcycles. Anyway, I hope that this moment of anxiety will
help to put Pirsig back on the track I though he was headed.
Unlike Zane this has actually been one of the more enjoyable parts of the novel for me. As I expressed in my post for this week, I like the narrator delve into the topic of hierarchy and the scientific process because it expresses a need to get away from the complication and headache that is abstract thought. I think that the narrator, in his high level of intelligence, is being a bit over welled with such deep thoughts, just like I was overwhelmed with his repetitive talk of these deep thoughts. The clear reason and scientific process is a break from the abstract, and I am cherishing it.
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