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(0)Robert M Pirsig
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English
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A narration of a summer motorcycle trip undertaken by a father and his son, this book becomes a personal and philosophical odyssey into fundamental questions on how to live. The narrator's relationship with his son leads to a powerful self-reckoning; the craft of motorcycle maintenance leads to an austerely beautiful process for reconciling science, religion, and humanism. Resonant with the confusions of existence, this classic is a touching and transcendent...
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English
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"The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment." Robert M. Pirsig wrote this unpublished line in 1962 while a patient at Downey Veteran Administration Hospital in Illinois, where he was admitted as a psychiatric patient. More than a decade before the release of the book that would make him famous, Pirsig had already caught hold of the central theme that would animate Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: Quality, a concept loosely...
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English
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From the author of the multi-million-copy-selling classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection of Robert Pirsig's writings on the central theme of his thought-"quality"-featuring never-before-seen selections from his unpublished works.
"The ultimate goal in the pursuit of excellence is enlightenment."
Robert M. Pirsig wrote this unpublished line in 1962, while a patient at Downey Veteran Administration Hospital in Illinois,...
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Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
℗2008
Physical Desc
1 audio disc (approximately 10 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1968, Robert Pirsig and his eleven-year-old son, Chris, made the cross-country motorcycle trip that would become the inspiration for Pirsig's book Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, a powerful blend of personal narrative and philosophical investigation that has inspired generations. Author Mark Richardson commences his own motorcycle pilgrimage, traversing the same roads and meeting the same people as Pirsig did, but also uncovering some...