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| When I was around 18* my local library in Maghull got a copy of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance which had just been published. It was in the small Philosophy section which along with obscure foreign authors I used to backfill my education like a magpie and the picture on the back of a low slung motorbike with Pirsig and his son doing the thousand mile stare in monochrome was as shiny a book as I'd seen. Pirsig's peeling away of the layers of Classical and Romantic aspects and exposing Quality as the mutually supporting and unifying glue has stayed with me since. That and the anecdotes around engineering and writing that I'll repeat with the dole regularity of an old fart. Pirsig calls his book a Chatauqua from the travelling circus of educational talks and demonstrations of the 19th Century, a wagon train of TED Talks. That seems to describe what I'm intending to do and its all the more relevant (to me at least), that it was this year (2017) that Pirsig died.Whether he'd enjoy or approve it though I don't know. |
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