{"id":5116,"date":"2017-04-25T14:37:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T21:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/?p=5116"},"modified":"2022-07-23T08:45:41","modified_gmt":"2022-07-23T15:45:41","slug":"robert-pirsig-1928-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/2017\/04\/25\/robert-pirsig-1928-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Pirsig, 1928 &#8211; 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance<\/em> was one of those books that have influenced me deeply. I read it when I was in high school and read it again and again, almost obsessively for a while. It was my companion through college, graduate school and beyond. I assigned sections from it in my master&#8217;s and doctoral courses. This is a book that changed me, and its impact on my thinking&nbsp;resonates even today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Robert Prisig died yesterday. I owe him, and his ideas, a great debt. In his homage, are&nbsp;two images I created today, once I heard the new, from one of my favorite quotes from the book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.001.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.001-700x394.jpeg\" alt=\"languageart-001\" class=\"wp-image-5120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.001-700x394.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.001-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.001-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.001-800x450.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.001.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.002.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.002-700x394.jpeg\" alt=\"languageart-002\" class=\"wp-image-5121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.002-700x394.jpeg 700w, https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.002-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.002-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.002-800x450.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/punyamishra.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/LanguageART.002.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Note<\/strong>: I edited the quote a bit when I created the designs. The complete (and accurate quote) is &#8220;The Buddha, the Godhead, resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or as the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a flower.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance was one of those books that have influenced me deeply. I read it when I was in high school and read it again and again, almost obsessively for a while. It was my companion through college, graduate school and beyond. 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