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Pirsig discusses this incident in an afterword to subsequent editions of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, writing that he and his second wife, Kimball, decided not to abort the child she conceived in 1980, because he had come to believe that this unborn child was a continuation of the life pattern that Chris had occupied.
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Pirsig and Zen
* Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values, 1974, paperpack, or hardback first edition ISBN 0-688-00230-7
Robert Maynard Pirsig ( born September 6, 1928 ) is an American writer and philosopher, and author of the philosophical novels Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values ( 1974 ) and Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ).
" Pirsig noted in an early interview, that Zen was rejected 121 times before being accepted by William Morrow Publishers.
Pirsig ’ s work in his book Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance analyzes the Rhetoric and Dialectic forms of Philosophies and their implications in the context of modern science and lifestyle.
* Zen And Now-Mark Richardson's book contains more Pirsig biographical detail.
Highway 175 was mentioned as the next to last highway ridden in the classic book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.
* Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ( 1973 )
In its introduction, Pirsig explains that, despite its title, " it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice.
Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ) is the second philosophical novel by Robert M. Pirsig, who is best known for his classic text, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
* Robert Pirsig uses " arete " as a synonym for Quality in his book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
* Robert Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, taught creative writing 1959 – 1961.
Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, attended the Center for a period of time.
* Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Pirsig and writing
During two of these years, Pirsig continued working at his job of writing computer manuals.
' Given the nature of the most famous of texts from both groups, ZAMM, is of the latter nature style of title ( and, rather than in ) one must ask if ZAMM is not a product of the archery text, but rather, an ' unintended ' or ' inadvertent ' ( and unknown to Pirsig during writing and publication
Pirsig and 1980
Pirsig has traveled around the Atlantic Ocean by boat, and has resided in Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, England and in various places around the United States since 1980.
Pirsig and was
Pirsig was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Maynard Pirsig and Harriet Marie Sjobeck, and is of German and Swedish descent.
of 170 at age 9, Robert Pirsig skipped several grades and was enrolled at the Blake School in Minneapolis.
Pirsig was granted a high school diploma in May 1943, and entered the University of Minnesota to study biochemistry that autumn.
Pirsig enlisted in the United States Army in 1946 and was stationed in South Korea until 1948.
In 1974, Pirsig was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to allow him to write a follow-up, Lila: An Inquiry into Morals ( 1991 ), in which he develops a value-based metaphysics, called Metaphysics of Quality, to replace the subject-object view of reality.
Pirsig joked that his co-workers noticed that he was " a lot less perky " than everyone else.
" I asked Pirsig ... he said it was like ' lilac ,' and that, ' it was the unsubtlety of the lilac odour and the hardiness of the bush that helped suggest her name to me.
Pirsig and life
According to Pirsig, such an approach would avoid a great deal of frustration and dissatisfaction common to modern life.
Pirsig and .
Modern philosophers who appeal to process rather than substance include Heidegger, Charles Peirce, Alfred North Whitehead, Robert M. Pirsig, Charles Hartshorne, Arran Gare and Nicholas Rescher.
The elder Pirsig served as the law school dean from 1948 to 1955, and retired from teaching at UMLS in 1970.
While doing laboratory work in biochemistry, Pirsig became greatly troubled by the existence of more than one workable hypothesis to explain a given phenomenon, and, indeed, that the number of hypotheses appeared unlimited.
Pirsig suffered a nervous breakdown and spent time in and out of psychiatric hospitals between 1961 and 1963.
Robert Pirsig married Nancy Ann James on May 10, 1954.
Pirsig also tries to combine Western and Eastern philosophy.
* Pirsig bio from the American Society of Authors and Writers.
* Robert M. Pirsig & Quality
* NPR interviews with Pirsig: Audio: 1974 and Audio: 1992.
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discusses and incident
Z. Ornea noted that, in a short section of his Autobiography where he discusses the Einaudi incident, Eliade speaks of " my imprudent acts and errors committed in youth ", as " a series of malentendus that would follow me all my life.
George Uhle discusses an incident that occurred in his rookie year with the Indians, in 1919:
In recent years, a book called " My Search For Celtic's John ", written by Tom Greig, discusses his personal life and the fatal incident.
discusses and afterword
* A chalk carving very much like the Uffington White Horse is featured extensively in A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett, and the author discusses the Uffington White Horse specifically in an afterword.
While this is a very minor theme in the novel, Pratchett discusses the actual historical belief in his afterword.
Clarke discusses this device and its use in other science fiction in the afterword to the novel.
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