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General Category => Literature, Music, Art & Entertainment => Topic started by: Nearly Sane on April 25, 2017, 12:52:40 AM

Title: Robert Pirsig dead
Post by: Nearly Sane on April 25, 2017, 12:52:40 AM

Memories of being 15??? I think and reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, vaguely getting some of it, missing most of it but with a lot of deep head nodding and chin stroking.


http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-robert-pirsig-obituary-20170424-story.html

Title: Re: Robert Pirsig dead
Post by: torridon on April 25, 2017, 06:39:19 AM

Me too, reminds me of late nights in undergraduate halls of accommodation, Pirsig's book something of a rite of passage out of the straight laced into the big wide world where nothing was certain and everything was possible.  A book of its time, and a remarkable achievement.

Title: Re: Robert Pirsig dead
Post by: Robbie on April 26, 2017, 07:18:19 PM

Marvellous book, I remember enthusing about it and buying copies as gifts for others (I'm sure they were delighted).
From what I remember there were two editions.

Glad Robert M Pirsig lived long.