Quotes from Robert M. Pirsig's books, and about them
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on The Greeks: “Kitto's The Greeks, a blue and white paperback which he has bought for fifty cents, and he has reached a passage that describes the very soul of the Homeric hero”
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on Phaedrus: “In the Professor of Philosophy's absence, another Platonic dialogue had been assigned. Its title was Phaedrus, which meant nothing to our Phaedrus since he didn't call himself by that name.”
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance on The Meeting of East and West: “The philosophy book, which is called The Meeting of East and West, by F. S. C. Northrop, suggests that greater cognizance be made of the undifferentiated aesthetic continuum from which the theoretic arises.”