欧宝娱乐

This was my 2nd reading and I love it even more.
I feel as though the people who don't love this book's style/content idiosyncracies (delving into the scientific mind and deconstructing every bit of mechanics to define values) are similar to the see things for what they are readers, not the delvers into the unknown.

Phaedrus and his son, and two friends, take a motorcycle tour around Bozeman. The friends, John and Sylvia are depicted as representing the superficial values with an inability to fix their own bikes. In fact they can, but choose not to see those details. They tunes out when he explains how to fix John the drummer's $1800 BMW bike. Ignored, Phaedrus stands there, holding a tin piece he pulled off a beer can to fix the problem expertly. The way Pirsig describes their alternate views on the beer tab as a solution is phenomenal and clear. John sees things for what they are defined as. It can only be a beer can. It is impossible to fix a machine with that. BMW bikes need precision parts. P sees things in terms of adaptable atomic particles. I love reading this book and taking in the metaphysical breakdown ride with them!

When they visit the college profs he used to work with, Duis, the artist, is down since he couldn't follow the instructions to build a rotisserie. Phaedrus shows them it is like building a sculpture, so there is not only one right way for it to be built. Low self esteem stemmed from inability to mimic specific set of rules, as deemed by some random guy who wrote the manual. This is life warns P. Don't get down, sculpt whatever you need!(less)