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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	comment	It's a book by Robert M. Pirsig about a lot of things, but the narrative that gives it structure follows a father and son's cross-country motorcycle trip in 1968. The story is semi-autobiographical and presented strictly from the father's point of view as they travel. It is the nature of traveling by motorcycle for there to be long periods of time in which conversation is impossible and so the reader is privy to the musings, observations, and memories of the father between stops in conveniently chapter-length essays he calls "Chautauquas".Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })It was later followed by a lesser known novel called Lila, in which Pirsig systematizes his musing into a coherent metaphysical framework - the Metaphysics of Quality.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: The Narrator is very intelligent, but has difficulty relating to people including his wife.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: The narrator uses a professor's own words against them to win an argument. Feels very smugly superior. Is kicked out of school the next day.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: The massive intelligence that the narrator assures us he possesses often seems to be the thing that makes him insufferable and rejected by others.
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers Are Hells Angels: Completely averted. The Narrator is a writer for industrial manuals who's traveling with his young son and family friends the Sutherlands, who are Minneapolis artists.
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