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April 28, 2005
Zen and the Art of Blogging
And what is good, Phædrus,
And what is not good...
Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry into Values
by Robert M. Pirsig
It's been 31 years this month since Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was first published. I bought the cheap paperback version (the one with the pink cover) a couple of years ago and remember having to bend the spine back to open it wide enough to read. Yet for the unpleasantness of reading a coarse-paper, tiny font novel, the experience was amazing. As Amazon puts it:
Arguably one of the most profoundly important essays ever written on the nature and significance of "quality" and definitely a necessary anodyne to the consequences of a modern world pathologically obsessed with quantity. Although set as a story of a cross-country trip on a motorcycle by a father and son, it is more nearly a journey through 2,000 years of Western philosophy. For some people, this has been a truly life-changing book.
I wish I had my copy here now. Even though you can read it online, it's just not the same as curling up with a cheap paperback.
Comments
I must have missed the boat on that book because it was such a chore to finish. Though I was the one who loved "The Line of Beauty" afterall.
Posted by: KT at April 29, 2005 04:56 PM
