aka Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
Literature 1974. Written by Robert M. Pirsig.
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Narrator: What is in mind is a sort of Chautauqua... that's the only name I can think of for it... like the traveling tent-show Chautauquas that used to move across America, this America, the one that we are now in, an old-time series of popular talks intended to edify and entertain, improve the mind and bring culture and enlightenment to the ears and thoughts of the hearer.

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Phaedrus: If you travel a path and note that another path breaks away to one side at, say, a 30 degree angle, and then later another path branches away to the same side at a broader angle, say 45 degrees, and another path later at 90 degrees you will begin to understand that there's some point over there that all the paths lead to and that a lot of people have found it worthwhile to go that way, and you begin to wonder out of curiosity if perhaps that isn't the way you should go too.

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Phaedrus: There's an entire branch of philosophy concerned with the definition of quality, known as esthetics.

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Phaedrus: The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

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Phaedrus: It's going to get better now. You can sort of tell these things.

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Phaedrus: I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning.


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