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Zen and the Art of Book Collecting

By Adrienne Raptis | April 26, 2011 | Comments Off on Zen and the Art of Book Collecting

In 1984, Robert Pirsig wrote an afterword to later editions of his now classic book, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I want to take a moment to include an excerpt here from that afterword and then write a few thoughts of my own. This book has a lot to say about Ancient Greek…

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