Fantastic, Phædrus thinks, that he should have remembered that. It just demolishes the whole dialectical position. That may just be the whole show right there. Of course it's an analogy. Everything is an analogy. But the dialecticians don't know that.

— Robert M. Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974)

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