Motorcycle Diaries

Che Guevera.

Just started reading it. Am I wasting my time?

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio)
And a pushbike of some sort.
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Purported to be about motorcycling to the degree that
/Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance/ is about
motorcycling...

 

That's not quite fair. He does talk about riding his bike places. It's
basically `Long Way Round' for reds, with added leching.

 

No.

 

Are you expecting to read about bikes, or about a socialist epiphany?

You might find it easier to just watch the film, especially if you speak
the lingo.

 

I picked the book up in a bookshop for 5 euros. It's largely for
practice. Quite amusing so far - lots of falling aff and breaking the
"Poderosa".

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio)
And a pushbike of some sort.
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

Ovejas y buitres:
http://obscuredomainname.org

 

As a story of how two young middle-class lads try to shag their way
round S. America it's not bad. Sooner or later the shagging had to stop.

It's about bikes the way Don Quixote was about horses.
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Dave
GS850x2 XS650 SE6a

"A scone and tea at half past three
Makes the day a little brighter
Keep your cakes and fancy tarts
And stick them up your shiter."

 

Nonsense. As a portable, re-usable non-prescription soporific,
it can't be beat.

 

really?

I had you down as a rationalist.

Go and stand in the corner with Porl.

 

the whole thing's pretty much about the perception of quality (as
referenced by the book's subtitle). But one of Persig's main arguments
is that in order to properly understand what quality is, we should
embrace non-rational or mystic modes of thought as well as the
rational and logical. It's basically hippy philosophy-wank.

I suppose Persig's teachings are rather less toe-curlingly wanky than
Ouspensky's, so you at least stand back to back with porl rather than
having to look at him.

 

<Considers opening popcorn>

PF

 

Maybe , but pre-intellectual awareness is quite an interesting concept
IMO.
Did you know that he was on the receiving end of a Sokal type spoof in
2005?

PF

 

for "complete bollocks" values of "concept", of course.

nope - do tell.

 

Well I would submit that any one that ever rode a motorcycle
approaching 10/10ths has had direct experience of it.

At a conference attended by Pirsig in Liverpool discussing the
Metaphysics of Quality a paper was presnted by Richard Loggins
entitled "Quality in the New Millennium". Turns out it was a spoof.

http://home.comcast.net/~moq/Loggins.htm


PF

 

You've not tried the original Ada specification. I've tried both, and
the spec is way more potent. But to quiet a playful kitten on speed,
try any meeting where management expounds a "strategy".

 

Don't worry, I'm standing /outside/ the corner.

PFCT;

 

"La esquina" as opposed to "El rincón".

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio)
And a pushbike of some sort.
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

Ovejas y buitres:
http://obscuredomainname.org

 

You shut that potty mouth right now Sancho.

 

I'll put the kettle on.

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Paul.
CBR1100XX SuperBlackbird (Buen mueble de patio)
And a pushbike of some sort.
BOTAFOT #4
BOTAFOF #30
MRO #24
OMF #15
UKRMMA #30

Ovejas y buitres:
http://obscuredomainname.org