Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
The whole book. Online. "What follows is based on actual occurrences. Although much has been changed for rhetorical purposes, it must be regarded in its essence as fact. However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either." The Quality Event
A treatise on the Metaphysics of Quality. Robert Pirsig
Links to articles. Robert Pirsig 1974 Book Publicity Photo
With his motorcycle. Perceptions of Quality
Further explorations of Robert M. Pirsig's Metaphysics of Quality. Anthony McWatt's Pirsig/MoQ Website
A site run by a post-graduate at the University of Liverpool's Department of Philosophy. Includes annotations and commentary by Pirsig himself along with photos and other related analyses. What did Pirsig Ride?
Honda CB77: Superhawk 305 MOQ.org
Forum for discussion and study of the Metaphysics of Quality as proposed by Robert M Pirsig in his books Lila: An Inquiry into Morals and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
HTML version of the book. Richard McKeon -- the Model for the "Chairman" in Z&AMM
The academic bully immortalized in ZMM, in which the Chairman, a character reputedly based on McKeon, browbeats students "with a gleam in his eye" while graduating "only carbon copies of himself."