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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > ---------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:36:48 -0600 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 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 > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > > Archives: > > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > > _________________________________________________________________ > Helping your favorite cause is as easy as instant messaging.You IM, we give. > http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=text_hotmail_join > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
