Fittingly, he has taken Walden with him to read, Thoreau's poetic record of a time spent away from the busyness of normal life.
However, with the miles come snatches of memory of having traveled the same roads before, fragments which alert the reader to a deeper story.Īlong with the record of the trip itself come the narrator's philosophical reflections, which are to slow the reader down to a pace at which important things can be discussed.
ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE MANUALS
There is nothing particularly remarkable about the narrator (who is never given a name but assumed to be author Robert Pirsig), who is now a writer of technical manuals living a normal existence. He tells also of the people that they meet, the towns they stop in, and the quarrels and conversations of the journey. The man describes what it is like to hear the wind moving across the plains, to see birds rise up from marshes next to the road, to ride through a ferocious storm, and to breath the fresh air of a mountain above the tree line.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is the self-told story of a middle-aged man and his son, Chris, who go on a motorcycling trip accompanied by an adult couple. They journey from Minnesota to California, taking the back roads and sleeping overnight in motels or camping. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: an Inquiry into Values
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