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To: Canuck Dave who wrote (99035)	11/17/2007 7:13:21 AM
From: Anchan	Respond to of 313059

OT: Re: "Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance" -- Didn't the writer find the solution to his conundrum in his discovery of "arete"? When the book had just come out, my father and I (barely out of high school) discussed it endlessly during lunch, hugely excited, until the potatoes turned cold. Later, he took me along for a father-and-son discussion of this novel on public radio. It was a failure: in the soundproof studio, we could not repeat our excitement. Lack of potatoes, perhaps.

To: Canuck Dave who wrote (99035)	11/17/2007 11:48:31 AM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 313059

To be honest I found Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance tedious. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas I found to be a work of genius as all his writings were. Kerouak's Dharma Bums and On the Road were impportant but imature. I saw where Tom Brokaw wrote a new book on the 60's and Hillary Clinton asked him: "have you cracked the code". I was stunned by that question. As the code should have been a plain as the nose on their face. The "code" of the sixities was that it was the "FIRST" major existential movement in the history of mankind. It always surprises me when these 'intellectuals" can't figrue that out. I am writing a my turn colmune for Time or Newsweek now (if eithr will print it" explaining this code. Kerouck's writing pointed to the existential idea, but he never really developed it like Sartre and Camus did.