Robert Pirsig
A motorcycle trip across the American West becomes an inquiry into quality, care, and what the modern mind has forgotten.

Portrait: Robert M. Pirsig in Chester, England, 2005. Ian Glendinning, CC BY 2.5, cropped, via Wikimedia Commons.
Robert M. Pirsig was an American writer whose Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was turned down by more than a hundred publishers and went on to sell millions of copies. Told as a motorcycle trip across America with his son, it is really a search for Quality, which he argued comes before the split between subject and object, and between the classical and romantic ways of seeing the world.
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A motorcycle trip across the American West becomes an inquiry into quality, care, and what the modern mind has forgotten.

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born 1937