Robert M. Pirsig Quote
What the classical formalists meant by the objection Quality is just what you like was that this subjective, undefined quality he was teaching was just romantic surface appeal. Classroom popularity contests could determine whether a composition had immediate appeal, all right, but was this Quality? Was Quality something that you just see or might it be something more subtle than that, so that you wouldn’t see it at all immediately, but only after a long period of time?
Robert M. Pirsig
What the classical formalists meant by the objection Quality is just what you like was that this subjective, undefined quality he was teaching was just romantic surface appeal. Classroom popularity contests could determine whether a composition had immediate appeal, all right, but was this Quality? Was Quality something that you just see or might it be something more subtle than that, so that you wouldn’t see it at all immediately, but only after a long period of time?
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