I really agree with the point Jose is making
about the way Pirsig manipulates his readers through the narrator. I do not
know if I would consider them “tangents” but I do believe that a lot of what
Pirsig says leaves me questioning many things, one of those things being what I
just read.
Not to
psychoanalyze Jose, but I think the reason he continues to think about these
questions he cannot answer is that he is bothered by the mere fact that he
cannot answer it. I say this because I know that the same is the case with
myself. A question seems like it should be answered, a question left unanswered
feels incomplete to me. Any lack of answering things because to really bother
me because I feel slightly incompetent, something I am sure no one likes to
feel. I am not sure if I agree with the statement Jose made about the questions
being “unanswerable”. I feel like sometimes when we cannot answer something we
would rather think it unanswerable so that we feel better about being at a
fault to answer. I think all of these questions that come to mind during
Pirsig’s work are answerable, just not with the current knowledge and insight
that we have. I am unsure of what kind
of knowledge it would take to answer said questions but I do not think them unanswerable.
This point brings me to the activity we did in class on Friday. Many of us
asked if it was possible to even connect three houses to three utilities without
an intersection. It is possible we just did not see how. Our constant failure
to answer the puzzle if you shall made us question its possibility in an
attempt to cope with out failure.
-Talia Akerman
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