Writing’s Enemy?

Here’s one of those things that make me(you?) go, “Hmm.”

I have just got a Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance booster shot.

I find out Robert M. Pirsig has died now. But I also find out that after nearly 50 years, his book is still selling 50K copies a year. Probably, people are using it as a basis for some sort of esoteric class - or they just carry it around like I did A Stillness at Appomattox - by Bruce Catton - just to look smart, when I was in the 8th Grade.

I am told by some that Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is incomprehensible.

I just recklessly loaned out my ancient, cluttered-with-annotations copy.

YouTube has a number of Pirsig videos. I hear his voice speed-rambling and muttering to NPR in 1974. A friend of mine recommended the 26 minute video to me. My friend tells me, “He sounds just like you.”

What was my YouTube take-away? Robert said that the last 5 or 6 chapters are the best ones. He also just sort of mentions that “…reading is the enemy of writing.”