[MD] New Pirsig DVD “On The Road with John Sutherland”

[Ant McWatt]

New Pirsig DVD “On The Road with John Sutherland”

The fourth and final installment of the authorized DVD series on Robert Pirsig’s life and 
work, “On The Road with John Sutherland” has just been released and is available directly 
from robertpirsig.org.


The DVD not only includes a full length interview with John Sutherland (with some brief 
unseen clips of Robert Pirsig filling in some gaps of John’s recollections), it also 
includes a full length interview with Professor Ron DiSanto, the co-author of the 
“Guidebook to Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”. 

John’s candid, if sometimes humourous, interview concentrates on the era from Pirsig’s 
breakdown in the early 1960s to the publication of ZMM in 1974 while Professor DiSanto’s
perceptive interview includes his recollections of his meetings with Robert Pirsig
and John Sutherland in the mid-1980s (when he was compiling the ZMM Guidebook with Tom 
Steele), the relationship of insanity with enlightenment and the use of Pirsig’s two books 
as teaching aids.  

Below is Robert Pirsig’s brief comment on an early version of the DVD:

"I think the John Sutherland interview, which we just looked at, will be a valuable part of 
the record. He has some opinions about me and 'Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'
that will help fill things in."

Finally, thank you to you all of you here that have supported this unique DVD project.   
Look out later in the year for a PDF version of the archive papers of the philosophical 
correspondence between Robert Pirsig and myself  from the 1990s.  Some of this material 
was even handwritten!

Best wishes,

Anthony




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