[MD] Coming Soon

[ian glendinning]

Funnily enough DMB, I'd agree, being a journalist and motorcycle
enthusiast is crap credentials for a serious author - but you're
right, fortunately Pirsig wasn't a Canadian ;-)

(And I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that anyone who works on the
Toronto Star is necessarily a Canadian either.)

Mark wouldn't claim to have written deeply about MoQ, on the contrary,
but I would say he is pretty sympathetic to the point - human
experience is reality. Like any road-trip (or whaling trip) the stars
of the show are the stories of the (real) people and places along the
way - Pirsig and Landis amongst those who cooperated on the venture.

So, you are right not to hold your breath for new additions to the MoQ
philosophical debate; But it is a sympathetic and entertaining piece
with the backing of a major publisher in hard-back, that should
promote fresh interest in ZMM itself on the 40th anniversay of the
original road trip. (I'd love to say more - but I can't at this
point.)

Trivial ? You're a hard man to please DMB ;-)
Ian

On 1/24/08, david buchanan <dmbuchanan at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> This gives me a sinking feeling. A journalist and motorcycle enthusiast writing about ZAMM? Is that a bit like an enviromentalist and whale-lover writing a review of Moby Dick? I'm afraid it's gonna be trivial and that it'll miss the point cause ZAMM ain't about bikes and Moby Dick isn't about any mammals larger than us. I sincerely hope I'm wrong and that my fears has no merit. You could chalk it up to a prejudice against canadian journalists or something, but that's my hunch. We'll see.
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> > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:36:48 -0600
> > From: psybertron at gmail.com
> > To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> > Subject: [MD] Coming Soon
> >
> > It's official, it's on Amazon.
> > http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Now-Robert-Motorcycle-Maintenance/dp/0307269701/
> >
> > [QUOTE]
> >
> > Zen and Now -
> > On the Trail of Robert Pirsig and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
> > By Mark Richardson
> > To be published by Knopf, Sept. 2008
> >
> > A journalist and motorcycle enthusiast – Mark Richardson – decides to
> > get on his bike and retrace the seminal journey taken by Robert
> > Pirsig, later immortalized in what has become a classic of
> > philosophical inquiry.
> >
> > Since its original publication in 1968, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
> > Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values has touched whole generations of
> > readers with its serious attempt to define 'quality' in a world that
> > seems indifferent to the responsibilities that quality brings. Mark
> > Richardson expands on Pirsig's journey with an investigation of his
> > own – to learn more about the enigmatic author of Zen and the Art and
> > to place his classic book in context. The result manages to be a
> > biography of Pirsig himself -- a discovery of an unknown life of
> > madness, murder and eventual resolution -- and a splendid meditation
> > on creativity and problem-solving, sanity and insanity.
> >
> > Mark Richardson is the editor of the Wheels section of the Toronto Star.
> > Zen and Now is his first book.
> > [UNQOTE]
> >
> > Ian
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