Arlo said:
For the record, I checked this out of the library the other day (its a good
read), but the author (Frentz) explicitly makes the Pirsig connection himself.
"Echoing Robert M. Pirsig's charge in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance, this narrative is my own quest for living a high quality life,
both personally and professionally" (p.13). And, to avoid lines of quote, in
the Index, under both Phaedrus and Pirsig, are 28 separate pages listed, many
in multiple page format (e.g., 20-22). There are five more pages listed under
"Church of Reason". So, I'd say Frentz's connection to Pirsig is without a
doubt both deliberate and explicit in his book.
As an aside, Frentz opens up Chapter 1 with a quote from Joseph Campbell's
"Hero with a Thousand Faces". So there's that explicit link as well.
dmb says:
Guess that settles it. Thanks, Arlo.
I was wondering about the "Trickster" part and wondered if (even hoped)
Campbell was an influence. Thanks for that too. Now I have a hunch that maybe
this trickster is friends with the contrarian, even though that's a Lila thing.
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