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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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This book was published the year before I went to Uni. There I read this during my Philosophy course. It was an interesting and thought provoking read. Now in my re-read years later it remains the same. Memories of Hume, Kant and Hegel linger from lectures. But what now strikes me is the brilliant interweaving of the simple story of a dad and his son on a motorcycle journey. And the immense sadness of the authors mental breakdown and ECT treatments. Together with the murder of his son a few months before his 23rd birthday. I couldn’t remain unfocused from this real sadness.
A very powerful novel now handing over to my Dad who started but didn’t finish this years ago.
A very powerful novel now handing over to my Dad who started but didn’t finish this years ago.
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Oct 06, 2024 02:36PM
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One of my Lit profs followed Pirsig's trip, also on a motorcycle, stopping where he did and comparing what's in the book to what was there at the time (early '90s). One of the things I remember from his seminar is that in the book, Pirsig mentions staying at a little hotel that had a claw-footed bathtub in the room. My prof found the hotel (by deduction) and asked to see the room/bath tub. The hotel had no idea that they had been mentioned (not by name but still) in a famous novel and were fairly flabbergasted. They were happy to let him take photos of the tub, though! 🛁
Berengaria great snippet
