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When Robert Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was first published in 1974, it caused a literary sensation. An entire generation was profoundly affected by the story of the narrator, his son, Chris, and their month-long motorcycle odyssey from Minnesota to California. A... read more

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This chronology is almost altogether drawn from a very helpful footnote in Forrest B. Shearon's "Visual Imagery and Internal Awareness in Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance," Kentucky Philological Association: Best Papers (1983), pp. 53-62.

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  1. Ronald L. Disanto (Author)

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