Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values"The real cycle you're working on is a cycle called 'yourself.'" One of the most important and influential books of the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerful, moving, and penetrating examination of how we live and a meditation on how to live better. The narrative of a father on a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest with his young son, it becomes a profound personal and philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions. A true modern classic, it remains at once touching and transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence and the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward. |
Contents
Section 13 | 274 |
Section 14 | 289 |
Section 15 | 300 |
Section 16 | 329 |
Section 17 | 331 |
Section 18 | 353 |
Section 19 | 399 |
Section 20 | 413 |
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Robert M. Pirsig Limited preview - 2006 |
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Robert M. Pirsig Limited preview - 2009 |
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