WARNING: The Following Is New Work In Progress And Is Partially or Wholly Incomplete.

This Content That I place here as I discover it. It is a "holding spot" for text that Needs Editing, Organization and eventually placed on my other ZMMQ Pages. This will be done ASAP, but for now you may view this for any info it may offer. Email Me If You Have Questions.

Legendary Motorcycles: The Stories and Bikes Made Famous by Elvis, Peter Fonda, Kenny Roberts, and Other Motorcycling Greats, by Basem Wasef

New Item for ZMMQ Links Page with Explaination. Mr. Wasef emailed his Chapter re "The ZMM Legendary Trip & Cycle", to me for my suggestions back in 2/11/07.
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/read/Legendary-Motorcycles.htm

Here Is Another Contribution for ZMM Oral History .

[Dear Professor Gurr]

Your message to Antczak led him to forward it to me, asking what I know about Pirsig. The truth is, nothing really. I read his book when it came out and liked it a lot--with reservations of course. I remember saying, when my wife asked me about it, that I wished I had written it.

I never knew Pirsig, and I have no accurate memories about physical details that he remembers or invents for his story. My strongest memory is that my first hearing of the book was in a review in TLS, where it pointed out that the villain of the piece was the chairman of Ideas and Methods. Since I was the chairman of I and M, I quickly bought the book and was relieved to see that the villain was McKeon, former chairman.

I have no way of knowing how McKeon treated Pirsig, and for all I know P. did suffer some devastating questioning. McKeon was not by any means the villain that P. portrays, but his methods sometimes led students to FEEL that he was: his mind was on truth, or on his version of multiple truths, and he tended to overlook the psychological effects on students. It took a lot of courage and inner strength to live with (or under) him, and as the book would lead you to expect, many grad students, not just Pirsig, failed to finish because of feeling overwhelmed or mistreated.

I would have to re-read the book to find details about which I might comment, and at the moment I am too much loaded with re-reading Anna Karenina, which I see as a considerably greater novel. But keep up the work: Pirsig deserves your attention.

Wayne Booth
Professor retired at U. of C.

X-Sender: wcbooth@nsit-imap.uchicago.edu
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 20:08:52 -0600
To: henryG@aiken.sc.edu
From: Wayne Booth <wcbooth@midway.uchicago.edu>
Subject: ZMM
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Dec 2001 02:05:34.0145 (UTC) FILETIME=[516B0B10:01C181E8]

Feedback from Michele Scott, a Freelance Computer & Management Consultant Who Assisted Me In Editing the ZMMQ WebSite Gallery Captions for Parts III and IV.

1) I wonder if this [the ZMMquality website] is counter to the essence of the book? Is developing a website about this journey very ‘Zen’? [HSG ReplyYes, thank you. Very important! I need to be very careful about this. What kind of changes should I make? Can you say more about this? I perceive that I am helping promote more people to actually read ZMM, and THIS is the best WAY they will get the point of Zen. Also I assume my pages and photos will help Pilgrims that are going to (or have already) decided to follow the ZMM Route. If my ZMM WebSite is counter to Zen, then at least I should explain (warn?) about this problem and urge people NOT to learn or understand Zen from my website!! Or for sure tell the visitor, if they want to grow in the direction of being more ”Zen Like”, they should, instead read ZMM and avoid my Website! (But I can tell already, from what you have said, that you did pick up quite a bit of the sense of what ZMM was about, so what is tshown in my ZMMQG captions does help the visitor, to learn of the books content and general thrust.)]
2) In bits and pieces, I picked up that there was a drama going on between Chris and his father. There was also the mysterious, but brilliant ‘Phaedrus’ character. Was he a rebel?
3) I understand that there is beauty and harmony in nature. But my personal belief is that beauty can be found anywhere – it is only your perceptions that need to be modified. It is the ‘lack of desire’ that is desirable vs. what is ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Perhaps that is a difference between Tao and Zen?
4) Since I am a city person, my preference is a big busy city. I am NOT an outdoorsy, nature buff. I have moved around to many places. My last home was in Geneva, Switzerland – one of the most beautiful spots in the world! I now live in Augusta, GA – one of the least beautiful spots! People sympathize and say that it must be a ‘hard’ adjustment. I don’t see it that way. I don’t look back, I don’t compare. I just ‘am’. I accept the present and live in the present. I don’t ‘wish’ for what is not here. BTW: How did you get to Augusta. Is your husband her? Is it his work here? (If too personnel, you may skip.)
5) I also believe in going with the ‘Flow’. You will notice the name of my consulting business is called ‘Flow Consulting’. It is from the concept of flowing with the energy of the world. Don’t fight against the way events want to go, utilize and leverage the strength of it. In work, I tap into the strengths and energy of the people in a company. I try to ‘guide’ and ‘channel’ that energy in appropriate directions. I don’t try to change them to conform to one rigid way.
6) This book strengthened my own beliefs. Not sure that I agree with the Narrator and his strict avoidance of things ‘commercial’ and touristy.
7) I am interested in reading the book [ZMM] now. I thought it was clever that Phaedrus and the Narrator were one and the same.

Information now placed on my Non-ZMM Photos.

I just found a photograph and additional description re the Narator's landslide. It was caused by an earth quake! See: http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=319648

Additional Links For ZMM Reviews With Explanatory Excerpt.

Wonderful!! Place near top reviews also added to links page http://www.invisiblegold.com/Support/articles/zen/

Comes on from an Eastern point of view http://www.swami-krishnananda.org/disc/disc_94.pdf

Pirsig makes a lot of excellent points throughout the book, which is the reason it is worth a read. For example, he comments that institutions serve their function and seek to subvert the individual to their own end. He illustrates this using academia as an example where students are taught to imitate and the idea of teaching involves thinking like the teacher. In my view, the only thing worth teaching is how to learn. This is something that can't be accomplished by grades, degrees, and generally by classroom teaching (where the pure motivation of wanting to learn can easily be corrupted by a desire to earn better grades or earning a degree), which is why I prefer the mentor-mentee relationship. There are some subjects where directed mentorship benefits (mathematics, for example), and this is more generally true when the subject of life itself is considered. However, freedom to learn and to question (something I've been raised with as far as back as I could remember) is arguably the most important condition to instill a passion for learning. In any event Pirsig's comments about institutions hold water much better when applied to governments and religions.

Another problem Pirsig points out is that over time, we've ignored our romantic side because the classical side has produced immediate gratification. As Pirsig also points out, this dichotomy, created by the Greeks, shouldn't have been created in the first place and leads to dissatisfaction. The solution of course, is to pay no attention to this dichotomy, which in my view is socially created, and ignore the notion of "right-brained" vs. "left-brained" talents. This is the dualism disease that Pirsig laments about.

The story itself has a degree of suspense thanks to the mysterious allusion to the schizophrenia that the narrator of the book has, fighting between an ideal and pragmatic self. The ending is particular interesting when the side that was in the background takes over.

Fundamentally, the whole book is about an inquiry into values and the notion of a contextual Quality which I won't get into except to say that in terms of a philosophy of life what matters most is being content (perhaps that's the same as "achieving" Quality).
http://www.ram.org/ramblings/books/zen_and_the_art_of_motorcycle_maintenance.html

http://www.univie.ac.at/Anglistik/easyrider/data/zen_and_the_art_of_motorcycle_ma.htm

http://www.43things.com/things/view/17497

http://www.teenink.com/Past/2001/April/Books/Zenand.html

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/ref/zen_and_the_art_of_motorcycle_maintenance

http://clublet.com/why?ZenAndTheArtOfMotorcycleMaintenance

http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:goVUjecpQ3oJ:www.ksu.edu/english/baker/english287/Links-Pirsig_ZAMM.htm+Zen+%26+Art+of+Motorcycle+Maintenance&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=58&client=firefox-a

http://www.termpapergenie.com/Motorcyclemaintenance.html

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-hL0RJMg4dfLdVR08SfDDLQ--?cq=1&l=6&u=10&mx=10&lmt=5&p=5

http://elver.cellosoft.com/2005/08/01/book-review-zen-and-the-art-of-motorcycle-maintenance-an-inquiry-into-values-by-robert-m-pirsig/

http://www.businesspundit.com/50226711/zen_motorcycle_maintenance_and_entrepreneurship.php

http://www.destinationkm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=1079

http://blog.warmbrain.com/2002/Jan/2002Jan09_zen_and_the_art_of_motorcycle_maintenance.html

A Personal Response To ZMM (In pdf) http://mh.bmjjournals.com/cgi/reprint/26/2/110

http://www.pattayamail.com/586/bmm.shtml

http://www.urbandharma.org/udnl3/nl060804.html

http://www.paulburgess.org/zen.html

http://www.zendo.org.nz/pages/zenandtheartofbodymaintenance.html

http://www.brint.com/wwwboard/messages/7735.html

Need to change the total Google pages looked at: also nowt my search had & in it not the full title!!! I have looked at Results 221 - 230 of about 834,000 for Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and start to see old ZMMquality.org resuls including my own old pages around page 160:

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/34359

Two Different Searches Find Several Hits. Add These To ZMMQ Page = ZMM and University

IDEA find bookstore on university campuses with ZMM

Search google [bookstore "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" site:edu ]
But this provided no leverage Bookstore makes no difference beyond edu and book name.

But I looked at thirty hits and below are interesting links to add to ZMM and University?
Good ones
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Brain-and-Cognitive-Sciences/9-68Spring-2005/Readings/index.htm
http://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english287/03f-287index2.htm
http://www.k-state.edu/english/baker/english287/Links-Pirsig_ZAMM.htm
http://www.trinity.edu/sbachrac/fys2004/
http://www.as.uky.edu/polisci/Syllabus/Fall06/PS441G-001%20Yanarella.pdf
http://inpress.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/poroi/essayconspectus.html

Reviews at edu
http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~girishv/fiction/books/reviews/zen_motorbike.html
http://www.bu.edu/dbin/liberalstudies//?q=zen_and_the_art_of_home_repair Boston U

IDEA find bookstore on university campuses with ZMM

Search google ["University bookstore" "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" site:edu ]
Only 12 hits. This is not a good way. Here are best.
http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/phys208/index_laboratory.html
http://unr.edu/homepage/gmp/791syl.html
http://www.brandeis.edu/registrar/usem20052006.html
similar http://www.brandeis.edu/registrar/usem.html
Has ZMM Quote
http://www.lesn.appstate.edu/clark-keefe/All%20readings/EDL%207160101064KCK.doc

The links below will take you to a Host of Beautiful Rainbow Colors in

the Sky.

The best collection of "Atmospheric Optics" I have seen. Also great photography!

Just wonderful!! Please enjoy!

Be sure to note triangles < > at upper right. The > right triangle will ALWAYS move to next the next photo, and thus cycle you through the entire collectionof photos. It will keep on going,even if you are at one of frames that shows the "many-photo-select".

Henry Gurr

Look here first.
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/droplets/iridim0.htm

Look around for others also good at:
http://www.atoptics.co.uk/phen800.htm

Eventually I will get some photos here

http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/SanAndreasFault/Main/HomePage

Customer Reviews ZMM as of 070629

494 Reviews
5 star: 59% (292)
4 star: 13% (68)
3 star: 8% (42)
2 star: 8% (43)
1 star: 9% (49)

Average Customer Review
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Fm Amazon review by "cicha1994" (Schenectady, NY United States)

Robert Pirsig has achieved what few others have managed before him and, to the best of my knowledge, nobody else has accomplished since: a perfect unification of philosophy, adventure, [travel, problem solving, techniques of learning and writing] and mystery. His "Chautauqua," or traveling tale, takes the reader on a profound tour of ancient Greek philosophy, the steppes of Montana, and even a little bit of Zen Buddhism, with endless surprises and much original if not truly inspired thought along the way.

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Legendary Motorcycles: The Stories and Bikes Made Famous by Elvis, Peter Fonda, Kenny Roberts, and Other Motorcycling Greats, by Basem Wasef

Here Is Another Contribution for ZMM Oral History .

Feedback from Michele Scott, a Freelance Computer & Management Consultant Who Assisted Me In Editing the ZMMQ WebSite Gallery Captions for Parts III and IV.

Information now placed on my Non-ZMM Photos.

Additional Links For ZMM Reviews With Explanatory Excerpt.

Check see if already on my site and add to ZMM In University, or links.

Misc

Complete ZMM Text in

Need to change the total Google pages looked at: also nowt my search had & in it not the full title!!! I have looked at Results 221 - 230 of about 834,000 for Zen & Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and start to see old ZMMquality.org resuls including my own old pages around page 160:

Two Different Searches Find Several Hits. Add These To ZMMQ Page = ZMM and University

IDEA find bookstore on university campuses with ZMM

IDEA find bookstore on university campuses with ZMM

The links below will take you to a Host of Beautiful Rainbow Colors in

Eventually I will get some photos here

Customer Reviews ZMM as of 070629

Fm Amazon review by "cicha1994" (Schenectady, NY United States)