[BraveMan]

I have a copy too. It angers me to read it.

Pirsig strikes me as self-centered, self-absorbed and self-indulgent. He put his family through Hell while he toyed with the whirling dervishes he invented in his head.

Screw him.

[blackie]

There were many whirling dervish folks in the 60's and 70's.

That's a great old motorcycle; the Honda Hawk started a trend.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Pirsig strikes me as self-centered, self-absorbed and self-indulgent.

A characteristic of the mystic leftie writer. Look at the mutants that populate "On the Road", as worthless a book as I've ever read.