Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Anyone have a copy to hand? Mine appears to have at least part of one line
missing!

In Chapter 26 when he's talking about gumption, just after the missing
con-rod bearing liner, the final paragraph of a page ends: "I've edited
manuals written to train specialists for IBM, and what they know when
they're done isn't that great".

But it doesn't end with a full stop and the next page starts: "You're at a
disadvantage the first time around and it may cost you a little more because
of parts you accidentally damage...".

Is there much missing? Or just the full stop? Anyone care to fill in the
gap(s)?

Many thanks in anticipation of spiritual enlightenment!

 

In communiqué <nKAyj.167344$>, Rudy

<picks up first edition hardback copy of ZATAMM>

That has a full stop (on the same page). Buy a less pikey copy.
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<homersimpson>
<fx="shakes fist at sky">
Damn you, Corgi - damn you to hell!
</homersimpson>

Thanks, it made all the difference - knowing, I mean, rather than the
additional enlightenment of the full stop itself.

 

In communiqué <a2Byj.168681$>, Rudy

I just checked my Corgi paperback (the flowering spanner on the cover)
1974 edition. I'd never noticed that error. My Corgi copy is held
together by yellowing sellotape generally, with a lot in that section.
Appropriate somehow, a bit like the patched up riding gloves reference
early in the book.
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| Pete Fisher at Home: |
| Voxan Roadster Gilera Nordwest * 2 Yamaha WR250Z |
| Gilera GFR * 2 Moto Morini 2C/375 Morini 350 "Forgotten Error" |
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It seems no-one noticed for at least six years then, because mine's dated
1980.

 

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you
expect to find it? >=

 

Is the full stop there when the book is closed?

 

It is now.

 

Here. As usual.