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WikiZmmLinks+SmallUpdate060709 v16.doc This Page Gives a Brief Description of (And Links To) Many Good and Interesting Internet Resources Concerning Robert Pirsig and His Book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ( ZMM).(Revised 28 Jan 2008) First off, many thanks to Paul Lewis for suggesting this website and guided it’s construction over the last 5 years.Paul is Reference Librarian, Webmaster, and Computer Guru Extraordinaire here at the University of South Carolina Aiken. Paul is the person who originally pointed out the wonderful website server software PmWiki and php Gallery. You will be most interested in Paul’s news analysis and explanation of the many virtues of many, good, reliable, & free “open source” software downloads at: http://opensource.usca.edu You May Learn More About The Software I Use.A) My software used to produce this website summarized on my Acknowledgements Page.
Basic Information on Robert Pirsig and his Book “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”At the two links below, you will find basic encyclopedia type information about Robert Pirsig and ZMM. You will see that "Wikipedia" is an excellent web based encyclopedia plus many good Pirsig web Links. It is continually updated by experts who willingly share their knowledge, their time and their energy, for the benefit of all! And you can't beat the price, because like many high quality "volunteer community efforts" on the web, it's free! As is emphasized in ZMM, quality comes from people who care. Incidentally, this is true for the authors of nearly all websites concerning Pirsig and ZMM. These web volunteers care, and that makes all the difference in the world! Ditto for the abovementioned OpenSource Software.) You might consider contributing your knowledge to the Wikipedia!
Three Very Interesting NPR Interviews of Robert Pirsig: Here Is Where You Can Hear his voice in an Audio Recording, and discover he can be quite enthusiastic and engaging.Thanks to Gary Wegner for placing this Robert Pirsig information on Wikipedia.
C) New Links Fall 05: A Successful Pirsig Rethinks Life of Zen and Science.After what he describes as a lifetime of humiliation that culminated in a breakdown, Robert M. Pirsig now faces the prospect of learning to mentally live with his live as a famous author. The same interview is available at any of the following:
Pirsig PersonalPirsig FAQSome of the most frequently asked Pirsig and ZMM questions are answered here here. A) A Timeline of Pirsig’s LifeThe website Psybertron, created by Ian Glendinning (a time-management expert), has a wonderful "Time Line" of the major events in ZMM author Robert Pirsig's life. It is the most extensive, detailed, and well researched that I have seen! His timeline is a much-needed resource to research and understand Robert Pirsig and his two books ZMM and LILA. I have already mentioned this above with link.
B) Take Lots of Time To Study Ian Glendinnings' "Pirsig Pages" for one of the most extensive online collections of ZMM & Pirsig Resources, including an annotated map of the ZMM Route.
C) Tribute To Dean Maynard E. Pirsig, Robert Pirsig's Father, University of Minnesota Law School
D) More History About Maynard E. Pirsig, who was Robert M. Pirsig's Father. Their was, once-upon-a-time, a web page called "History Maynard E. Pirsig". Unfortunately this site is no longer working, but I am trying to locate where it may be found. If you have any information to offer please contact me. Those persons who have access to Law Libraries might consult the University of Minnesota Law School book/journal => “In Pursuit of Excellence -- A History of the University of Minnesota Law School, Part IV, The Pirsig Years.-- A Time of Transition.” Volume 63, MINN. L. REV. 229 (1979). For more information you may contact me, HenryG**aiken.sc.edu I have collected much additional information about Robert M. Pirsig and Dean Maynard E. Pirsig. Photos of PirsigA) Twelve Color Photos of John, Sylvia, Chris and Author Robert Pirsig from their Original 1968 TripHere are twelve pictures taken by Robert Pirsig as he, Chris, Sylvia, and John made that 1968 epic voyage described in "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance." I believe these photos were taken in July 1968, while they were actually traveling on that trip. At that time, Pirsig was 39 years old and Chris was 11 years old. John and Sylvia are about the same age as Pirsig. Go here and click on the first album http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/albums.php?set_albumListPage=1 Thanks to Paul Lewis for the installation of ZMM Quality Gallery and Installation of ZMM Quality PM Wiki Pages used for these photos which are incidentally my site. B) Black and White Photograph of Robert Pirsig and Chris on their 1964 Honda Super Hawk motorcycle (Grey, Chrome, and Black.This Was Placed on Web Long Ago And Still Has a High Google Rating Despite Nearly All 8 Of It's Links Are Broken!
C) Photo of Robert Pirsig, author of "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"This photograph was taken by David Brill, National Geographic photographer, around 1974. Also shown is the bike that Pirsig rode during the trip described in ZMM. Click here for Robert Pirsig publicity still photo http://members.aol.com/sktea/pirsig-p.htm Free Internet DownLoad: Complete "Full Text" of book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, By Robert Pirsig. These Two Reliable WebSites Offer Free Internet Version of the Complete Text of Book.With this text saved (by copy and paste) into your computer word processor, you will have a great resource for ZMM study & research. For example: a) You can do word searches for any word. 2) Or do a word count. (To do this, do an "Edit > find-replace" for your target word. CAUTION: Since this may, by some mistake, alter your ZMM copy shown on your computer screen, Do NOT "save" this version. A) Below Are Instructions To Get ZMM "Full Text". But You Will need a "Word Processor" In Your Computer.Just in case you don't already have in your computer a Word Processor (Such as MicroSoft Word, K Word, or Word Perfect), Highly Recommended & Free AbiWord B) This Full ZMM Text "Comes-Up" As One Continuous Page of Text, and This Good For "Copy & Paste" of the whole book Into Your Computer Word Processor. Getting "Your Own Copy" In Your Own Computer Is HIGHLY Recommended!!Instructions to load the complete ZMM text into your computer: (File size ~1.03 mb.)
C) Full ZMM Text Presented Page by Page, For Occasional Reading In "RealTime": HTML Version of “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”An HTML version of ZMM made available by the Virtual School, a self-described distributed learning community. http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Quality/PirsigZen/index.html D) Corrected Version ZMM Full Text, Available To Serious ZMM Researchers & Academics.I have a corrected version of the full ZMM Text which originally came from above mentioned CalTech site. My version has corrected perhaps 30 typographical errors, Added "Chapter", at start of each Chapter, (to aid in searching for a particular Chapter.), plus various word counts, and listings of Pirsig own unique invented words. I will supply my version to serious ZMM Researchers & Academics upon request. NOTE: Many websites show links to the full text of the ZMM book. However many such sites no longer work. Send email to: henryg_aiken.sc.edu for other links to ZMM sites that currently do supply the full text. Below are two long standing and very reliable sources for the full text of ZMM. You Might Want A Real Book In Your Hands!A) ZMM Is Available In Most Public & University Libraries And Regular Bookstores. Or You Can Order the Paper Printed Version of ZMM At Many Online Bookstores Online.
B) A search on Amazon.com will find many different versions of ZMM: paperback, hardcover, mass-market paperback (the pink copy) as well as other books related to ZMM and Pirsig. (Note; Thru C) the years I extensively use Amazon.com for reviews and other information. Thus I owe Amazon this support herein. They have more than earned it, because of their great information sources re practically any book, sort of a public service, which I have used so freely.) Be Sure To Try Amazon.com "Look Inside the Book"! This really wonderful search tool at Amazon.com is available for nearly all books (including ZMM). For example this neat "tool":1) Shows what books are cited in ZMM, & conversely, what books cite ZMM itself.
Fellow ZMM TravelersBelow are photos and travel reports of persons who have actually traveled the “ZMM Route”. Gennie DeWeese calls them “Pirsig Pilgrims”! I am always interested in stories Anecdotes and Memoirs - Vignettes and observations of persons who have traveled the ZMM Route or have known Robert Pirsig or other information re ZMM. If you know any one who has Traveled the ZMM Route or other information/suggestions, Do not hesitate to Contact Me. (see link bottom left) Please Send Me Your Story & Anecdotes!! Very likely I will post Your Experiences On My Site!! I want to hear from you, no matter how small or large. A) Gary Wegner's "ZMM Route" Photo Album and Super Good Maps For Each Day Of Travel.In 1978, English Professor Gary Wegner followed took photographs along the route described in the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". He has created a very wonderful series of maps of the ZMM Route. These maps, one for each day of Pirsig's travel, show very accurately, in great detail, how to follow Pirsig's original route. Also available are his wonderful series of 74 Color Photos, which were taken just three years after the ZMM book came out in 1975. After you click on the link below you will see Gary opening the door of ominous foreboding and old Montana Hall with very wonderful music reflecting the dark mood of this Montana State University Building. (Be sure to have your sound system turned on and volume up part way. You will want to hear this music!! If you want to hear the music again, hit the "refresh" at upper left of your browser or reenter the URL address at top center.) After about a minute, the music will fade and you should click on "Enter" on the door. A “Full Route Map” will come up. Click on Day 1 at upper left to see a map of the ZMM Route for the first day. To get the next day, type-in the next highest number in the URL box at top. Gary’s photos are accessed by clicking on the highlighted words below the respective map. (Professor Wenger's 1978 trip started in Minneapolis, but he was not able to go beyond Bozeman.) His color photos show excellent views of his travel and most especially show the interior of Montana Hall. This is the building in which ZMM author Robert Pirsig taught his English Rhetoric Classes while professor at Montana State University. These are especially valuable photographs, because the old classrooms of this venerated building have been totally changed to other uses and are no longer there! They were made into offices by extensive renovations soon after Professor Wegner's trip. In ZMM, Pirsig describes so well his feelings of shear panic as he goes up the steps of the old building where he once taught English classes years earlier. This is the ominous old brick building called Montana Hall. He tells us how he and Chris are spooked as opens he opens and the front door of this creaky old building. The last photo you see on Professor Wegner's site for Day 6, is in fact this very door of this very same Montana Hall.
((Special note: A year or so ago, Professor Wegner changed the "Entry Page" for his WebSite to this one http://zamm.home.att.net/ I thought his previous "Enter Page, with that "Click to Enter" was too good to miss. So I asked him to PLEASE re-establish his old entry page complete with that old music. I wanted every one to see that spooky door and simultaneously hear this wonderful mysterious music, to prepare for the journey to come. If you like it, please email him, in care of me, and I will forward it to Professor Wegner.)) His other "Entry Page" is here http://zamm.home.att.net/ In the summer of 2003, Professor Wegner again traveled the Beartooth Pass portion of the ZMM Route. His 2003 photos seem to be no longer available. Professor Wegner stated in a recent email: "The LINK on picture [#32 of above mentioned Web Page] has caused me to plan another trip to the Beartooth this spring. As soon as the plows open the pass, we plan to traverse it once again. He says "By the way, for a look at some Beartooth pictures circa 5/1/03, check out" these http://www.mtpolitics.net/beartooth2.html NOTE: Professor Wegner’s excellent series of maps (and music) work very well on following internet browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firebird Browser (on either a Windows or Macintosh Computer), and Safari Browser on a Mac Computer. These maps may not work with other Browser versions. Please let us know if you have any information. B) Mark Richardson’s ZMM Route JournalMark Richardson, a motorcycle and auto editor and writer for the Toronto Star, started out on the ZMM Route Monday July 19th, 2004. This photo album from our gallery, documents his trip. http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=MarkRichardson C) The Site of Two Guys Riding the ZMM Route in July 2004.In the summer of 2004, a duo of motorcyclists from Germany followed the complete ZMM Route on two Harley motorcycles. On 1 July 2004, Franz Schabmueller and Gregor Schleicher, started by renting their motorcycles from "Eaglerider Chicago”. They understand this to be the largest "Harley Rental Dealer" in the States. Then, they rode to Minneapolis soon thereafter to continue their ZMM Trip. Their names and emails are fschabmueller**schabmueller.com and gregor.schleicher**gmx.net (insert appropriate symbol at asterisk; coded to prevent spam). During the ride, they took super hi-quality pictures and posted daily reports on the site to get the most recent impression available. They stated “I hope we agree that this is maybe a fitting way to honour the spirit of Mr. Pirsig's work.” (Of course I agreed!) They hope Mr. Pirsig and all persons who visit their WebPages will sign their Guestbook! After you click here, Be Sure To Click On ENGLISH: http://www.zenride.com . (ALTERNATIVELY, you will get the same Web Pages if you click here for http://www.phaedrus-way.com Zen and the Last Hurrah II. Our Trip Following the ZMM Route Summer 2006.On SAME Bikes As Narrator and John Sutherland.
NOTE: So far as I know, you "are the only people to have ridden the ride using
Purchase information re their ZMM Ride DVD & book + email contact information on the next link, which is their home page:
D) Photos and Travel Experience of Yours Truly Henry Gurr, WebMaster ZMMQ. Just So You Don’t Miss Them Here Is My Own Story.1) My Story Of What It Was like to Travel the ZMM Route and What I learned.
2) Scroll Down To Second Album = “My Research Photos” Illustrating the ACTUAL Scenes of ZMM..
3) Scroll Down To Third Album = “Non-ZMM Experiences” for Photos Illustrating My PERSONAL Experiences Along the ZMMRoute
The ZMM Route Shown In Annotated Maps.A) Gary Wegner's "ZMM Route" Photo Album and Super Good Maps For Each Day Of Travel.Scroll up about 12 inches for links & full discussion of Professor Wegner’s Maps above.
B) Glendinning Annotated ZMM Route MapDr. Ian Glendinning, of Psybertron.org, has created an annotated map of the "ZMM Route". It has a narrative summary of ZMM. The map shows the route, city names, state boundaries, rivers and other topographical land features like forests etc, as well as the ZMM Route itself shown in color. Although the map is small, it good resource to research and understand Robert Pirsig and his two books ZMM and LILA. The “Annotated Map," comes up on your computer screen with the MAP (bottom half of screen) and the correlated "Time / Place / ZMM Narrative” in Word Box” (top half of screen). Follow the instructions and take some time to explore this resource which comes up nicely on a variety of computers, even old ones! Go here to view the ZMM route map
See also Psybertron’s Pirsig Pages for one of the most extensive online collections of ZMM, & Pirsig resources, & Mr. Glendinning’s efforts to construct a new management science based on ZMM (in part). Especially be sure to click on “Timeline” for full bio information of Robert Pirsig’s life. Very complete and. Interesting!!
C) A Collection Of Google Aerial Photos of ZMM Route and Other Links and Information.These aerial photos are really spectacular. They are a good resource, but it takes a while to get through them. They show each indicated town and the surrounding countryside, but the ZMM Route itself is Not Indicated. Only the person who already knows the route would be able to pick it out.
Interesting Places Along the ZMM Route:Because I Was Searching the Web For Needed Photos, I Happened To Discover These Places Mostly In Miles City, Montana. But I Will Add Links For Other Towns If You Send Them To Me. See also the photo captions of my Album, “Sights and Scenes Along the ZMM Route”, for more vastly many more links related to specific towns traveled along the ZMM route. A) Miles City, Montana Links Many of these pages include good photographs indicated by **.Miles City Historic Walking Tour **
An 1883 Hand Painted Aerial View of Miles City (Click to Enlarge)**
Photos of Miles City and Surrounding Countryside. **
Single Photo of Custer County Court House. ** http://www.rootsweb.com/~mtphotos/courthouse/custer-miles-city-courthouse.htm A Testament to the Well Built & Very Enjoyable Buildings in Miles City http://www.montanamagazine.com/0104/outlook.html Miles City, Montana General Information at Chamber of Commerce Site. For an especially good Miles City History Article.
A Very Nice Capsule Summery if Miles City Montana from Rand-McNally Map Web Page. This site also has a Web "Map Presenter" for this town and many other areas of USA.http://www.randmcnally.com/rmc/explore/exploreCityMain.jsp?poi_id=227000324 On Mapquest, click on “Aerial View” and go to Zoom Level 9 for good view of Yellowstone River, Miles City, I-94, and surrounding irrigated fields! To see road map of same area, click on "Street Map" at upper left of the map you are looking at.
The Philosophical and the LiteraryA) A Site to Share and Learn about Robert Pirsig and his Literary WorksAccording to the “Metaphysics of Quality” (MOQ) website, "MOQ.org exists to provide a forum for discussion and study of the Metaphysics of Quality as proposed by Robert M Pirsig in his books Lila [An Inquiry into MORALS] and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, An Inquiry Into Values". There is a great deal of information here as well as large number discussion forums and archives. Much to explore in its many pages and extensive links!! Click here for http://www.moq.org/ B) Psybertron’s Pirsig Pages, An Extensive Collection of ZMM & Pirsig ResourcesThis website (already praised above) was created by Ian Glendinning (a time-management expert), puts together an impressive array of ZMM and Pirsig information. Included are a timeline of Robert Pirsig’s life and an annotated map of the ZMM route (mentioned above). This is an essential resources for researching and understanding Robert Pirsig and his two books ZMM and LILA. And ... well ... that is precisely why these resources were created: Dr. Glendinning discovered ZMM as an assigned text in his Graduate Degree Program, and he is now embarking on a major research effort to apply ZMM to the general problem of Enlightened Management in our troubled times. I can't say "Quality Management," because this is now a horribly "abused term." (See below for Anthony Mc Watt's webpage on British Schools.) And of course, these are exactly the troubles that Pirsig pointed to us in ZMM and LILA. Peruse Psybertron’s Pirsig Pages by going here http://www.psybertron.org/pirsigpages.html You will find much, much, more additional information concerning ZMM and Pirsig if you search around. Also on this site are Dr. Glendinning's wide-ranging interests reported in his regular "Blogs." Click here for http://www.psybertron.org/ C) An Academic PhD Philosophical Study of Robert Pirsig's "Metaphysics of Quality (MOQ)".A site primarily concerned with Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality. The site is created and run by a recent PhD graduate of the University of Liverpool's Department of Philosophy. This site contains a considerable amount of material on Pirsig not available elsewhere. It is a new site, but nevertheless is the result of Mr. Mc Watt's many years study of Pirsig's ZMM and LILA. His new book on the Philosophy of MOQ is available (complete ~ 0.8 MB) as a link at the top-center of his Home Web Page. This book, the result of his Ph.D. Thesis, is a "Textbook for the Philosophical Study of Robert Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality" (MOQ). Dr. Mc Watt is a regular contributor to www.moq.org where you may study many of his articles. (Also see MOQ Web Link above). So you don't miss important stuff, be sure to click on the "News" and "MOQ" Links of Dr. Mc Watt's homepage at:
D) History and Extensive Information re Honda 305 Motorcycle, and It's Japanese Designer, Mr Soichiro Honda. Also. Has Other Pirsig & ZMM Resources, As well as parts & repair information.This is a good site for extensive information re history of the Honda 305 Motorcycles and it's designer: Mr. Soichiro Honda, an article you should be sure to read. Also has where to get parts, manuals, sell your cycle, and see photos of various 305's owned by people around the globe. Site has good review of ZMM and many links.
E) Pirsig & ZMM ResourcesVancouver-based author and photographer Patrick Jennings offers a list of online Robert Pirsig & ZMM resources on his eJournal webpage.
F) "Will the Real Richard McKeon Please Stand Up?"An article from the University of Chicago magazine about the man who purportedly served as the model for who ZMM's Phaedrus called "The Chairman". This professor was the Chair of the U of C Academic Program called "Committee for the Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods", at The University of Chicago.
G) What is the Quality Event?Norwegian Bodvar Skutvik's essay "The Quality Event: a Treatise on the Metaphysics of Quality" hopes to at least provide an outsider's introduction to the Metaphysics of Quality based on his readings of ZMM and Lila. Available as a download as well.
H) Perceptions of Quality: Further Exploration of Robert M. Pirsig's Metaphysics of QualityThis website serves as the homepage for the book "Lila's Child: An Inquiry into Quality," Lila is Dan Glover's compilation of "Lila Squad" online postings. This book is essentially an edited version of several years of email interchange, much like those currently here: (On left of the page that comes up)click on the "Browse the MD archives" http://www.moq.org/ ..( I personally do not get much out of these current exchanges or Lila’s Child, now called MOQ Discuss.)
I) How Does Quality Relate to Social Evolution?"Beyond Lila: Defining the 'Social' in Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality," Margaret Hettinger's 1998 essay, examines both social and intellectual constructions of quality.
J) Weather & Landscape Serve To Telegraph Ones Inner Thinking.In the conclusion to his essay “Place, Vision, and Identity in Native American Literatures", Professor Robert Nelson discusses the impact of the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Nelson writes: “I was especially intrigued by Pirsig's use of climate and geography as controlling metaphors for the intellectual topography of conventional postwar American thinking and spiritual vision, by how conveniently changes in weather and landscape serve to telegraph or accompany changes in the drift and direction of the nameless narrator's own thinking. The topological analogy between landscape and vision in the texture of this novel, I thought, brought into question some of our century's--and our culture's--most cherished assumptions about the primacy and autonomy of human consciousness. In Pirsig's text, the structure and motion of narrative consciousness seemed (and still seems) to me to depend as much on the physical landscape through which it moves as on the currents of the intellectually mainstream ideas it retraces. That is, for all the overt abstractness-- sometimes even abstruseness--of the novel's metaphysical subject matter, its basic structure seem fundamentally realistic, at least in the sense that the structure and motion of its [ZMM's] plot remain consistently responsible to the topography of the physical landscape through which the protagonist moves. Mapping place names and descriptions on a Rand-McNally road atlas, one can trace exactly the protagonist's itinerary all the way from Breckenridge, Minnesota (ZMM page 25) west to Bend, Oregon (ZMM page 294), then south along the Pacific coast towards San Francisco (ZMM page 372). I did this, and then I toyed for some time with the idea of replicating (that is, literally driving, though in an automobile rather than on a motorcycle) the narrator's itinerary, just to see whether Pirsig was being so topographically accurate and, if so, whether knowing this would make any difference to a reading of the novel. I never made that trip. Instead, I ended up spending the limited travel time of my first sabbatical to make a different trip for similar purposes [in New Mexico].”
To me, Professor Nelson is suggesting that the ZMM-enthusiast, (modern explorer), traveling west like ZMM author Robert Pirsig, would sense Pirsig's landscape in new or more profound ways. Perhaps with ZMM as a Travel Guide, the modern traveler could become a "Pirsig Pilgrim". The enlightening experience, of the pilgrimage and the landscape, would then provide in new ways of seeing and experiencing. As Professor Nelson said in a different article, "[ZMM provides new ways of seeing] what is in front of you, around you, and within you". Click here to read all of Professor Nelson’s conclusion to “Place, Vision and Identity”. http://www.richmond.edu/~rnelson/PandV/conclusion.html For the rest of Professor Nelson's essay “Place, Vision, and Identity in Native American Literatures,” click on these two links for the introduction and body
For Professor Nelson's homepage and some of his published articles, see http://www.richmond.edu/~rnelson/ K) ZMM and the Crisis of Reason.Scott Consigny's essay “Rhetoric and Madness: Robert Pirsig's Inquiry into Values" originally appeared in a 1977 edition of the Southern Speech Communications Journal. In it, Consigny argues that Pirsig has constructed an alternative paradigm to the prevailing rationalism.
L) Madness as a Literary Device"The Quality of Madness in Robert M. Pirsig’s ZMM: A Conversation".
M) A Site to Share and Learn about Many Philosophical IdeasThe ZMM quality website wishes to thank Doug Renselle for posting our "Find Historical Site Information Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" on his Quantonics website. Click here for http://www.Quantonics.com/
ZMM In Schools.How ZMM was used in my Physics Classes.
Miscellany: For Things with a Quality All their OwnA) "The Church of the Minorites" by Lionel Feininger.ZMM author, Robert Pirsig, has many connections to Minneapolis, MN. Hanging in Phaedrus' English Dept. Office, at Montana State University-Bozeman was a reproduction of painting named "The Church of the Minorites" by Lionel Feininger. Here is what Pirsig said in ZMM: "…… not a painting, it's a print of a painting he ordered from New York and which DeWeese had frowned at because it was a print and prints are of art and not art themselves, a distinction he didn't recognize at the time. But the print, Feininger's 'Church of the Minorites,' had an appeal to him that was irrelevant to the art in that its subject, a kind of Gothic cathedral, created from semiabstract lines and planes and colors and shades, seemed to reflect his mind's vision of the Church of Reason and that was why he'd put it here. All this comes back now. This was his office………."(ZMM page 143). Bill Paton sent me the following email: "There is a painting in …the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis where Robert Pirsig is from. It is "The Church of the Minorites II" by Lyonel Feininger and is undoubtedly the print that Pirsig had on the wall." There are actually two paintings by Feininger of the same name, “Church of the Minorites I” and “Church of the Minorites II.” Click here for Feininger’s "The Church of the Minorites I ” (Not in ZMM). Nick Adams was kind enough to provide Quantonics.com with the graphic. Click here for ZMM Quality Gallery’s Photo.
Click here for the Walker Art Center’s Photo. “The Church of the Minorites II.” Yes in ZMM, I do believe.) For the Walker Art Center's Home Page in Minneapolis, MN, go here. For examples of other paintings by Lionel Feininger, click here. Useful Miscellaneous InformationA) Michael Polanyi, Is An Author Who, In Many Ways, Is Saying What Robert Pirsig Said.I am studying more about the relation of the thought of these two authors and invite persons interested to contact me. (Click link below.) B) Here Is What Wikipedia Says About Professor Michel Polanyi.From the mid-1930s, Polanyi began to articulate his opposition to the prevailing positivist account of science, arguing that it failed to recognize the part played by tacit knowing and the creative role played by the imagination. Tacit knowledge and explicit knowledge were held coefficient, coexistent and indivisible.
Polanyi embraced the existence of objective truth (Personal Knowledge, p. 16). However, he criticised the notion that there is such a thing as the scientific method. Given the important, even necessary, role that a scientist's personal skills, biases, and passions play in the discovery process, Polanyi argued that knowing is personal. More here
C) Owen Barfield, Is An Author Who, In Many Ways, Is Saying What Robert Pirsig Said.I am studying more about the relation of the thought of these two authors and invite persons interested to contact me. My Professor Henry Gurr Home Page has several links to more information on Owen Barfield. Use Edit > Search [Barfield] on
D) A Guide to Mostly Free Online U.S. Geospatial Maps and Attribute DataHere is a wonderful mostly free map resource site, which was recommended by Science Magazine 6 June 03.
E) Find what you're looking for fast at Shortest Path, a Web Search Engine.A Great Number of New Links Are Now In My Newly revised Menu Items, Especially the Second thru Eighth Item.Click on any of these items at upper left,. A Complete List of Professor Henry Gurr's WebPages and Contact Information.Henry Gurr's University Web PagesHere you will find information concerning my Physics Teaching. For Example: Teaching Philosophy, Experiments, Demonstrations, Aeolian Harp, Camera Obscura, AND Demonstrations incorporated into the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center. Linked from this webpage is also a letter to my physics students outlining "The Objectives of Physics". http://www.usca.edu/math/~mathdept/hsg My Original Proposed Search for ZMM Historical Site Locations (Spring 2002).
Information Concerning the Book "The Guidebook to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". (Information Concerning Lists of "Best Books” Will Also Appear.)
My Modest Collection of "Best Books Lists" Where Robert Pirsig's ZMM Is Listed As Among Other Classics Authors Such as Tolstoy, Melville, and J.R.R. Tolkien. (For Example: "Top 100 Novels" / "Best Spiritual Books of Century" & "Great Books".
My "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" General Web Pages. (This is what you are looking at right now)
My Zen & Art Motorcycle Gallery and other photos such as Robert Pirsig, Chris, John, and Sylvia. http://ww2.usca.edu/ResearchProjects/ProfessorGurr/gallery/ My New Save Energy Guide Web Pages on
University of South Carolina Aiken Library. http://library.usca.sc.edu/ Webmaster for this website is
Notice; If you discover problems in these WebPages or you need some information or data concerning the ZMM Book, please do not hesitate to contact me. You may write to me at the above address OR phone or email at the following:
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