Hey all, I'm a newbie at this forum thingy and I'm VERY glad it's here. Anyway, here goes: One of my favorite characters is Dusenberry. (BTW, I'm going to use terms from all over the place, so please bear with me.) In terms of Keirsey and the Myers-Briggs test, Dusenberry was an ENFP, while Phaedrus is an INTP. For any of you who have never heard of this classification scheme, go to Keirsey.com and read to your brain's content. PG 36 "Most important, Phaedrus seemed to have a very analytical mind (NT). 'That's what I don't have,' Dusenberry (the NF) had said. 'I know volumes about these people but I can't structure it. I just don't have that kind of mind.'" Dusenberry loves talking with people for hours at length (ENF) and is variable enough (P and DQ) to ingest some peyote. He also disregards the other teachers (J and SQ) and does whatever he wants. I know somewhere else in Lila, Phaedrus goes on to comment that he tries to befriend the Indians and gets nowhere because he doesn't know how to do small talk. (I) Dusenberry is an awesome character because I've been thinking about how things get into the world. (If I digress, I'm sorry.) Diagram: NF---->NT /\ | | | | \/ SJ<---SP This, to me, is how anything humans do gets into the world. First, you intuitively know that something feels wrong with the world. SJ----->NF Then you think about how to fix it. NF----->NT Then you apply it to the real world. NT----->SP Then you keep doing whatever it is you're doing (aka attach it to SQ) SP----->SJ Repeat Phaedrus says that Dusenberry would "pour hours and hours of information about American Indians into Phaedrus' ears." Dusenberry (NF) felt that there was something wrong but he didn't know how to fix it, so he gave all his data to Phaedrus (NT) and Phaedrus thought about it and now we have this book. That's about it for now. I'm trying to combine MOQ with a bunch of other theories right now. Sorry if I didn't limit myself enough. Thank you. Sincerely, Matt Coughlan ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com MOQ.org - http://www.moq.org
