Hi, Horse. Just a far pitch, would it be possible that the bike was build specific for the American market?...(a sentence from the web) Adrie
Op vr 5 okt. 2018 om 13:25 schreef Horse <[email protected]>: > Hi Christoph > > The flower half of the motif on the cover of Zen and the Art of > Motorcycle Maintenance (ZAMM) is a Lotus Flower which has a special > place in Buddhism. According to Wiki: > "In*Buddhist*symbolism the*lotus*is symbolic of purity of the body, > speech, and mind as while rooted in the mud, its*flowers blossom*on long > stalks as if floating above the muddy waters of attachment and desire. > It is also symbolic of detachment as drops of water easily slide off its > petals." > The flower is Zen, the spanner the motorcycle. > > Something else that may also be of interest are the markings on the > spanner. > On my ancient copy of ZAMM, on the shaft of the spanner I can see 2 > impressions from the 'casting'. One is 5/16W and the other is 3/8BSF. > The first is for Whitworth (or British Standard Whitworth) and the > second is for British Standard Fine which relate to bolt/thread sizes > and were used extensively on British motorcycles, before and during the > 1960's. > I don't know if this is to symbolise Pirsig's links with the UK or if > it's just an artist's attention to detail. It does seem a bit > incongruous when you think that Pirsig's motorcycle was Japanese which > would likely have used the metric system. It may be some other > additional symbolism or it may be nothing! > Food for thought? > > Have a look at: > > https://www.ebay.com/gds/Understanding-Whitworth-BSF-AF-BA-and-metric-tools-/10000000003499809/g.html > for more background info > > There are other good references to be found if you search using Google. > > Good luck with your research and feel free to post again with other > questions or ideas > > Horse > > > > On 02/10/2018 21:35, list wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am working on some research about the various editions of Pirsig’s > books and I was wondering if anybody would know what flower/plant is > depicted on several of the covers. I would suspect that it somehow relates > to the philosophical ideas. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thank you, > > Christoph > > 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/md/archives.html > > -- > 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/md/archives.html > -- parser 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/md/archives.html
