“Repair of Japanese motorcycle requires great peace of mind.”
We just called them riceburners and refused to own them.
Of course no one remembers that the title of the book was a takeoff of another book which was also remarkable,” Zen in the Art of Archery” written by Eugen Herricgel. I read this first in German and it relates the story of a German professor who was teaching in Japan and remained stuck there throughout the entire second world war. He learned the Japanese classical archery system and with it a lot of Zen philosophy. It’s also a good read and I’m sure Persig used some of it to form his thoughts on how to strike the target of a quality life.